Dr Oğuz Alyanak
Postdoctoral Researcher
Oğuz Alyanak is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Fairwork project.
Research Staff
Nick Ballou
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nick Ballou is a postdoc researching how video games affect mental health both for better and for worse, and how to make psychological research on games more trustworthy.
Dr Alessio Bertolini
Researcher
Alessio Bertolini is a Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute for the project FairWork, where he is investigating platform work in the UK and Germany.
Kayla Blomquist
Research Assistant, DPhil Student
Kayla Blomquist is a DPhil researcher at the OII focused on international AI governance approaches. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Oxford China Policy Lab and previously served as a US Diplomat to the People's Republic of China (2018-2021)
Lola Brittain
Research Assistant
Lola Brittain is a Research Assistant on the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Chris Cai
Research Assistant
Chris Cai is a Research Assistant working on Professor Helen Margetts’ project entitled 'Conversations Between Governments and Citizens in a Digital Society'.
Jedrzej Duszynski
Research Assistant, MSc Student
Jedrzej is an MSc student working at the intersection of technology, productivity, and sustainability.
Dr Alex Edmonds
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alex develops approaches to statistics and machine learning which provide formal privacy guarantees to individuals, using techniques such as local differential privacy.
Ayca Deniz Ergin
Research Assistant
Ayca is a Research Assistant on the Fairwork project at the Oxford Internet Institute, focused on Fairwork’s new AI supply chain audit and certification framework.
Dr Tamas Foldes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bridging psychology and neuroimaging of memory with a flair for open science. Expertise in R, Python and fMRI analysis.
Dr Vahid Ghafouri
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vahid is an NLP Researcher attempting to track immigration-related narratives using enhanced sentence transformers and LLMs.
Franziska Sofia Hafner
Research Assistant
Sofia completed her MSc in Social Data Science and now works as a Research Assistant at the OII, focusing on algorithmic fairness, machine learning, and interactive data visualization.
Dr Christiane Hagel
Former Research Assistant
Christiane works with Prof Bernie Hogan and the Researching Identity Networks Group on exploring the methodological and usability challenges in shifting from interviews to self-reported social network analysis data.
Dr Laura Hakimi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher on the ESRC-funded project “Towards equity focused approaches to EdTEch: a socio-technical perspective.” Her research interests lie at the intersection of learning, technology, ethics and inequality.
Shilpa Mariam Joseph
Research Assistant
Shilpa Mariam Joseph is a Research Assistant at the Fairwork Project. She holds an MSc from LSE and previously worked at the Internet Freedom Foundation on advocacy and fundraising.
Chun Hey (Brian) Kot
Former Research Assistant
Chun Hey (Brian) Kot is an MPhil in International Relations candidate at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His research interests sit at the intersection of emerging technology, human rights, and geopolitics.
Angelo Leone
Research Assistant
Angelo research interests lie in AI, economics, and public policy. He currently conducts research on the labour market value of AI skills and micro-credentials.
Dr Karen Mansfield
Postdoctoral Researcher
Karen is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the research programme on 'Adolescent Well-Being in the Digital Age' with Prof. Andrew Przybylski.
Dr Sabrina Norwood
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sabrina studies the relationship between online environments and well-being. Her research includes creating and testing digital behavioural interventions to enhance user autonomy and digital literacy.
Manos Perdikakis
Research Assistant
Manos is a DPhil candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford, where he has also completed the MPhil in Economics.
Mollie Roddan
Former Research Assistant
Mollie Roddan is a Research Assistant with the Researching Identity Networks Group, working on the ESRC-funded ANSWER (Advancing Network Studies with Enhanced Reporting) project.
Julia Sepúlveda Coelho
Research Assistant
Julia is a Research Assistant for the Digital Good Network, where she is researching the digital good people want when using generative AI on private messaging apps.
Nishat Tahira
Research Assistant
Nishat is a Research Assistant with the Digital Well-Being Group, where she researches the impact of reducing gaming on physical activity, sleep quality, and overall well-being in young adults.
Dr Jonas C. L. Valente
Cloudwork Postdoctoral Researcher
Jonas C. L Valente is a Brazilian researcher with a sociology Ph.D., with a thesis about digital platforms. He worked as a professor in Brazilian universities and is the author and editor of books about digital platforms and work.
Helen Webley-Brown
Research Assistant
Helen Webley-Brown is a Research Assistant working on Professor Helen Margetts’ project entitled 'Conversations Between Governments and Citizens in a Digital Society'.
Teodor Yankov
Former Research Assistant
Tedi is a data scientist researching NLP algorithm benchmarking with LLMs, as well as graph-based methods for link prediction and change-point detection in ecological temporal multiplex networks.