Ingeborg van Vugt is currently a postdoc in the SKILLNET project at the Faculty of History of the University of Utrecht. Her research focuses on the social dynamics structuring the conduct and behaviour of the citizens of the Republic of Letters. Using tools and insights from graph- and game theory, she aims to investigate the ways in which early modern scholars constantly monitored their interactions with one another in making decisions that could result beneficial to the ethos of the Republic of Letters. She completed her PhD in early modern history in a joint degree programme between the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Cum Laude) and the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral research focused on the application of network analysis to study the epistolary relations between the Dutch Republic and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with particular focus on the network of the Florentine librarian Antonio Magliabechi (1633-1714).