I am Associate professor (docent) in sociology and senior lecturer (universitetslektor) in criminology at the School of Police Studies, and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University.

With a background in engineering physics, I am interested in modelling social phenomena using large-scale datasets and non-traditional quantitative methods. My research is mainly concerned with social cohesion, how societies maintain it and how it is challenged. I address these questions through social network models of organizing processes, particularly applied to the dynamics of criminal organizing and collaboration. I also use life-course trajectory analysis to study migrant integration and neighbourhood segregation dynamics in Sweden.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

• Sarnecki J, Beckley AL, Wikman S, Westfelt L, Lilja M, Mondani H, Bäcklin E and Rostami A (2025) Changes in Immigrant Population Prevalence and High Violent Crime Rates in Swedish Municipalities. Journal of International Migration and Integration 1–21
• Dawson LL, Rostami A, Mondani H, Harris-Hogan S and Amarasingam A (2024) A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and Swedish Foreign Fighters. Behavioral sciences of terrorism and political aggression 1–23
• Rostami A, Mondani H, Carlsson C, Sarnecki J, Edling C and Sturup J (2024) Lone threats: a register-based study of Swedish lone actors. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 48(1): 75–94
• Vogiazides L and Mondani H (2023) Neighbourhood trajectories in Stockholm: Investigating the role of mobility and in situ change. Applied Geography 150: 102823
• Mondani H and Rostami A (2022) Criminal nomads: The role of multiple memberships in the criminal collaboration network between Hells Angels MC and Bandidos MC. Global Crime 23(2): 193–215
• Mondani H and Swedberg R (2022) What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term. Theory and Society 51(4): 543–564
• Mondani H and Rostami A (2022) Uncovering the degree of criminal organization: Swedish street gangs and the role of mobility and co-offending networks. Social Science Research 103: 102657
• Vogiazides L and Mondani H (2021) Geographical trajectories of refugees in Sweden: Uncovering patterns and drivers of inter-regional (im)mobility. Journal of Refugee Studies 34(3): 3065–3090
• Rostami A, Sturup J, Mondani H, Thevselius P, Sarnecki J and Edling C (2020) The Swedish Mujahideen: An exploratory study of 41 Swedish foreign fighters deceased in Iraq and Syria. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 43(5): 382–395
• Vogiazides L and Mondani H (2020) A geographical path to integration? Exploring the interplay between regional context and labour market integration among refugees in Sweden. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(1): 23–45
• Carlsson C, Rostami A, Mondani H, Sturup J, Sarnecki J and Edling C (2020) A Life-Course Analysis of Engagement in Violent Extremist Groups. The British Journal of Criminology 60(1): 74–92
• Sturup J, Rostami A, Mondani H, Gerell M, Sarnecki J and Edling C (2019) Increased gun violence among young males in Sweden: A descriptive national survey and international comparison. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 25(4): 365–378
• Mondani H (2019) Sector, industry and inter-organizational movement statistics in the Stockholm Region: Informing organizational growth models. Quality & Quantity 53(2): 735–755
• Rostami A and Mondani H (2019) Organizing on two wheels: uncovering the organizational patterns of Hells Angels in Sweden. Trends in Organized Crime 22(1): 34–50
• Rostami A, Mondani H, Liljeros F and Edling C (2018) Criminal organizing applying the theory of partial organization to four cases of organized crime. Trends in Organized Crime 21(4): 315–342
• Mondani H (2018) The underlying geometry of organizational dynamics. Similarity-based social space and labor flow network communities. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 24(3): 378–400
• Mondani H (2017) The evolving network of labor flows in the Stockholm Region: Sector dynamics, connectivity and stability. Applied Network Science 2(1): 34
• Rostami A and Mondani H (2015) The complexity of crime network data: A case study of its consequences for crime control and the study of networks. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119309
• Mondani H, Holme P and Liljeros F (2014) Fat-Tailed Fluctuations in the Size of Organizations: The Role of Social Influence. PLoS ONE 9(7): e100527

Book chapters

• Mondani H (2024) Women in Violent Far-Left Extremism in Sweden: Positions and Roles. In A Rostami A and Edling C (Eds.) Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
• Mondani H and Rostami A (2023) Criminal nomads: The role of multiple memberships in the criminal collaboration network between Hells Angels MC and Bandidos MC. In D Décary-Hétu and R Boivin (Eds.) The Criminology of Carlo Morselli – Part II. Routledge. Reprint
• Mondani H and Rostami A (2022) Samarbete i brott: Organiserad brottslighet i Sverige 1995–2015. In A Rostami and J Sarnecki (Eds.) Det svenska tillståndet: En antologi om brottsutvecklingen i Sverige. Lund: Studentlitteratur

Commissioned reports

• Rostami A and Mondani H (2024) Kriminella entreprenörer – en studie av den organiserade brottslighetens kopplingar till näringslivet. Stockholm: Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
• Mondani H and Rostami A (2023) Kriminella på kartan – en ESO-rapport om den organiserade brottslighetens geografi. Rapport till Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi 2023:3. Stockholm: Expert Group on Public Economics (ESO)
• Mondani H, Rostami A, Askanius T, Sarnecki J and Edling C (2021) Women in violent extremism in Sweden. TemaNord 2021:513. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers

Research reports

• Rostami A, Mondani H, Carlsson C, Sturup J, Sarnecki J and Edling C (2018) Våldsbejakande extremism och organiserad brottslighet i Sverige. Research report 2018/4. Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies

Policy documents

• Mondani H, Askanius T and Rostami A (2023) Country Chapters: Sweden. In A Ritzmann (Ed.) Transnational linkages between violent right-wing extremism, terrorism and organized crime. Berlin: Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

Theses

• Doctoral thesis in sociology. Mondani H (2017) Modeling Organizational Dynamics: Distributions, Networks, Sequences and Mechanisms. Stockholm Studies in Sociology, New Series 67, Stockholm: Stockholm University
• M.Sc. thesis in engineering physics. Mondani H (2012) Statistical Mechanics of Organizational Growth Process. Trita-FYS 2012:33, Stockholm: KTH Theoretical Physics
• Thesis in industrial engineering. Mondani H (2008) Aplicaciones de Mecánica Estadística al Problema del Viajante de Comercio. Buenos Aires: UCA School of Engineering

Other scientific publications

• Dawson LL, Rostami A, Mondani H (2024) Violent extremism in the hinterland of the `War on Terror´: comparative studies of Canada and Sweden. Behavioral sciences of terrorism and political aggression 1–10