Hello, I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter in the UK. Before this, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Social Science department in the GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany.
My research spans computational social science, complex systems, network science, and data science. I explore how regularities and social phenomena emerge in different contexts, such as cities and social environments.
I am particularly interested in addressing urgent societal challenges such as urban crime, social inequalities, and human mobility. These challenges often involve complex, interrelated factors, requiring a complex-systems approach to understand and tackle them effectively (see below).
I study human dynamics, such as face-to-face interaction and web browsing behavior, to develop tools and models that address pressing issues like social biases and online privacy, with a focus on human-centered approaches. In another line of research, I also investigate how to explain the behavior of computational swarm intelligence to make swarm-based algorithms more transparent.
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