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academic positions, grants, supervision, teaching, and service

Current Position

Associate Professor (UD1), Computational Social Science
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam

Previous Appointments

  • Assistant Professor (UD2), Computational Social Science, University of Amsterdam (2023-2024)
  • Senior Researcher, Geography, University of Neuchâtel (2022-2025)
  • NWO VENI Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban Geography, University of Amsterdam (2021-2025)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Complex Systems, Chalmers University of Technology (2019-2021)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Sociology, University of Amsterdam (2017-2019)

Major Grants

  • Swedish Research Council (VR) (2026-2029, €472,000) - False words, failing democracies? (Co-PI)
  • NWO VIDI (2025-2030, €850,000) - Improving social media with large language models (PI)
  • Trans-Atlantic Platform (2024-2027, €500,000) - DemDialogueAI (Co-PI)
  • NWO VENI (2021-2025, €250,000) - Seeing the city through digital platforms (PI)
  • EU H2020 ODYCCEUS (2017-2021, €6,000,000 project) - Social media and political conflict (contributor and work-package co-author)

Education

  • Habilitation / P.D., Chalmers University of Technology (2022)
  • PhD in Complex Systems, Chalmers University of Technology (2017)
  • MSc in Complex Adaptive Systems, Chalmers University of Technology (2011)
  • BSc in Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology (2010)

Service and Recognition

  • Head of Research Unit: AI, Culture & Society (ILLC)
  • Member, De Jonge Akademie (KNAW)
  • EU Horizon external expert (disinformation reviews)
  • Reviewer for outlets including Science, PNAS, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, and New Media & Society

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