People

Dr Piotr Blaszczyk

Research Associate

Dr Blaszczyk is a computer scientist with experience in academia and years of leadership positions in the technology sector. He is one of the key collaborators on the OxCOVID19 Project with Adam Mahdi.

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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.

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Dr Siân Brooke

Research Associate

Siân Brooke's research interests are largely within sociology and gender. Siân’s doctoral research focused on the construction of gendered identity on the pseudonymous web, and she is collaborating with Kathryn Eccles on feminist data science.

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Dr Monica Bulger

Research Associate

Dr. Monica Bulger recently completed a Research Fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute and is currently a consultant on child protection and digital media literacy for multi-national organisations including UNICEF and the BBC.

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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.

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Dr Chris King Chi Chan

Former Research Associate

Chris Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Mark Graham on the Fairwork project.

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Dr Matthew Cole

Research Associate

Matthew Cole was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Fairwork, investigating global platforms. His research interests include the political economy of technology and platforms, particularly the transformation of work.

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Dr Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal

Research Associate

Dr. Gretta Corporaal is a Sociologist of Work and Organizations, previously based at the Oxford Internet Institute, specializing in online labor platforms and the future of work and organizations in the digital economy.

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Dr Patrick Feuerstein

Research Associate

Patrick Feuerstein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Fairwork Secretariat at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), working with Mark Graham.

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Dr Alexander Görlach

Research Associate

Alexander Görlach is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, working with Luciano Floridi on the impact of AI on democracy.

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Dr Isis Hjorth

Research Associate

Isis is a cultural sociologist focusing on emerging practices related to networked technologies. She is currently researching microwork and virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia with multiple colleagues at the OII.

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Dr Niklas Johannes

Research Associate

Niklas Johannes is a behavioural scientist. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age programme, where he studied effects of technology on well-being and performance.

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Dr Otto Kässi

Research Associate

Otto Kässi is a labour economist with a background in econometrics. His research concentrates on empirical study of online labour markets, as part of the iLabour project with Vili Lehdonvirta.

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Dr Aleksi Knuutila

Research Associate

Aleksi Knuutila is an anthropologist and data scientist. He was working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computational Propaganda programme, where he used computational and qualitative methods to study political communications and communities.

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Lofred Madzou

Research Associate

Lofred Madzou’s interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, artificial intelligence and policy. The overarching theme of his work is "responsible AI" and he works in collaboration with Philip Howard.

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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.

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Nahema Marchal

Former Research Associate

Nahema was a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project.

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Dr Silvia Milano

Research Associate

Silvia is a philosopher interested mainly in epistemology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence, working with Dr Brent Mittelstadt.

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Tom Nicholls

Research Associate

Tom Nicholls is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute studying the analysis of news texts using computational methods and the development of new methods for studying political behaviour online.

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Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Research Associate

Along with Philip Howard, Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media.

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Dr Myrto Pantazi

Research Associate

Myrto is a social psychologist with a background in psycholinguistics. She uses experimental methods to study social cognition. She is particularly interested in how people process and validate information as well as in their (conspiracy) beliefs.

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Dr Chris Russell

Research Associate

With Brent Mittelstadt and Sandra Wachter, Chris coordinates the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) Research Programme, investigating the legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies.

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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.

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Bertram Vidgen

Research Associate

Bertram Vidgen's research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts. An alumnus of the OII DPhil programme, he is engaged in ongoing collaborative research as a member of the Public Policy Programme at the Turing Institute.

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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.

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Dr 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 Andrew Przybylski.

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Dr Alex J Wood

Research Associate

Dr Wood is a sociologist of work and employment, focusing on the changing nature of employment relations and labour markets. As part of the iLabour project, he is currently researching worker voice, organisation and action in the online gig economy.

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Dr Pu Yan

Research Associate

Dr Pu Yan is a researcher at Oxford Internet Institute. She is currently working on the project "What Do 'the People' Want?", which explores the use of digital media and the rise of populism in six countries using computational social science methods

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Dr Stefan Zohren

Research Associate

Stefan's research is focused on applied machine learning in finance. He collaborates with the OII on research and financial news networks and teaches the Machine Learning and Applied Machine Learning papers to MSc Social Data Science students.

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