I am a computational sociologist (PhD from Utrecht University, the Netherlands), researcher and Assistant Professor, and a seasoned R developer and trainer. My main research interests focus on (dynamics of) social networks and mathematical/computational social science as tools for understanding conflict and cooperation. I am a researcher at the COALESCE Lab, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, participating in the Patchwork project, and an Assistant professor at the Chair of Quantitative Methods and Information Technology, Kozminski University.
I am busy expressing professional love and passion towards:- Statistical modeling of networks with ERGMs based on “partial” network data such as ego-centric samples or aggregate network data (e.g., collected for the Network Scale-Up Method). These will be extremely handy in addressing research questions posed in the PATCHWORK project.
- Complex network datasets. In particular, assembling them from non-obvious sources in a technically-advanced way. Some say it is Digital Humanities. Examples are projects: Mapping Atlantic Portuguese Empire (MAPE) or Law in social networks of late antique Aphrodito.
- The Statnet Suite. Statnet is a suite of R packages for statistical social network analysis, visualization, and modeling focusing on Exponential-family Random Graph Models. I am a member of the Statnet Development Team since 2022.
- My own R packages, which you can find on my GitHub profile.