Merim is a Research Fellow at CONNECT in Trinity College Dublin.

Merim Dzaferagic was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in telecommunications engineering in 2011 and Master’s Degree in 2013  from the University of Sarajevo. He subsequently worked as a researcher and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sarajevo before moving to BH Telecom where, from 2014 to 2015, he worked as an expert associate for monitoring systems and operational control of the Radio Access Network (RAN).

In September 2015 he started his PhD research work at CONNECT in Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Dr Nicola Marchetti and completed it in 2019.

His research focuses on the application of Complex Systems Science to networks. In particular, his work analyzes the emergence of local interactions in telecommunications networks which gives rise to a global behavior resulting in better network performance.

Merim’s own webpage can be found here.