Louis Barclay
Research Associate
Louis is a technologist, researcher and campaigner with a focus on making tech issues more accessible to the public, and is a Senior Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation.
Research Associates
Fyonna Boateng
Research Associate
Fyonna Boateng is a Psychology undergraduate at the University of Reading. With Dr. Netta Weinstein, she is investigating public opinions of AI and its potential biases.
Dr Jonathan Bright
Research Associate
In 2022 Jonathan Bright became the Head of AI for Public Services at the Turing Institute, having previously been a faculty member of the OII. A political scientist, he specialises in computational and ‘big data’ approaches to the social sciences.
Dr Chico Camargo
Research Associate
Dr Chico Camargo is an interdisciplinary researcher who develops and applies computational tools to study complex systems, collective human behaviour, public opinion dynamics and culture change.
Dr Danilo C. Dantas
Research Associate
Dr. Danilo Dantas is a Full Professor of Marketing at HEC Montréal, where he serves as the pedagogical director of the graduate diploma in Management of Cultural Organisations.
Dr Rafael Grohmann
Research Associate
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on digital labour, AI and work, workers' organizing, platform cooperativism and digital solidarity economy.
Zoe Jay Hawkins
Research Associate
Zoe is Co-Founder & Deputy Executive Director of the Tech Policy Design Institute (TPDi), Australia’s new independent non-partisan think tank dedicated to technology policy.
Yui Kondo
Research Associate, MSc Student
Yui's research focuses on developing a network visualizer for estimating social group visibility on social media. She holds a BA in International Political Economy from Waseda University in Japan.
Dr Kristoffer Magnusson
Research Associate
Kristoffer is a clinical psychologist at the Stockholm Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. His work is mainly concerned with studying various aspects of gaming and gambling disorder, in collaboration with Andrew Przybylski.
Dr Daria Onitiu
Research Associate
Dr Daria Onitiu researches and publishes on the legal, ethical and governance aspects surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, generative AI and deepfakes.
Dorian Quelle
Research Associate
Dorian Quelle is a PhD Candidate in Quantitative Network Science (UZH). He works as a Data Scientist, focusing on countering foreign state propaganda.
Dr Lulu P. Shi
Research Associate
Lulu Shi is a sociologist working on projects investigating the intersection between society and technology. Her research interests include digital sociology, sociology of education, work and employment.
Dr Felix M. Simon
Research Associate
Felix is a Research Fellow in AI and News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and a former DPhil student at the OII. A former Leverhulme and Dieter Schwarz Scholar, he researches AI in journalism and the news.
Dr Arthur Thomas
Research Associate
Arthur Thomas is founder and CEO of Proteus Associates, a consultancy specialising in applying information technology to life sciences. Working with Ralph Schroeder, his current research explores predictive computational models of biological systems.
Dr Anna Tovmasyan
Research Associate
Dr Anna Tovmasyan is currently working to systematically examine the factors that shape trustworthiness in healthcare technology, as well as value-based decision-making regarding transparency in communication about potential bias in AI applications.
Dr Funda Ustek Spilda
Research Associate
Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda was a postdoctoral researcher and project manager on the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Dr Matti Vuorre
Research Associate
Matti Vuorre is an experimental psychologist. He applies his expertise in cognitive psychology and Bayesian modelling as a postdoctoral researcher in the Programme on Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age.
Professor Netta Weinstein
Research Associate
Netta Weinstein is a professor of clinical and social psychology at the University of Reading. She studies human motivation, behaviour and well-being in collaboration with Professors Wachter and Mittelstadt.
Dr Pu Yan
Research Associate
Dr. Pu Yan is an Assistant Professor at Peking University, specializing in computational social science, digital media platforms, and the societal impacts of algorithms.