I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University and a member of the Uppsala University Information Laboratory (UU-InfoLab). I am also a funding member of the cross-disciplinary Uppsala University Computational Social Science Lab (UU-CSS) I got my PhD from the Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 2015.

My research has an interdisciplinary and practical perspective at the intersection of computational social science / social computing, network science, natural language processing and mechanism design. I am particularly interested in applying large-scale digital data analysis techniques to study problems with social implications through the lens of human information networks.

Currently, I am working on projects related to studying online communication and its influence on our collective opinions, ideas and human decision making. For example, developing methods to identify controversies or quantifying the effect of language persuasion in online conversations.