Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work, University of Oxford Dr Fabian Braesemann is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the OII. Fabian uses social data science methods to study the digital economy. Before Fabian became a Departmental Research Lecturer at the OII, he worked as a Research Fellow & Data Scientist in the Future of Real Estate Initiative at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and as a Data Scientist at the OII on projects that applied data science to understand human development and labour markets. His research has been published in leading academic journals and it was covered in national and international media. Fabian has been presenting the results and implications of his research in keynote talks at academic conferences as well as policy and industry events. Having worked as a data scientist in industry and academia, Fabian has investigated social processes with a multitude of different online data sets in numerous domains. These experiences make him confident about the prospects and value of social data science as a key discipline in the 21st century – in academic research as well as in policymaking and industry. Besides his role at Oxford University, he runs a social data startup company – DWG Datenwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Berlin. The DWG aims to bridge academic knowledge generation and social data science innovation. The company applies data science to generate insights into the digital transformation of markets and it works mainly with the public sector and international development organisations.
Professeur, chimie, Université Laval Florent Domine est professeur associé au département de chimie et directeur de recherche au CNRS, dans l'unité mixte Takuvik créée par le CNRS et l'Université Laval. Ses travaux portent sur le climat dans les régions arctiques et boréales. Il étudie notamment les interactions entre végétation, neige, pergélisol et climat, et cherche à quantifier les nouvelles rétroactions climatiques que ses recherches découvrent.
Postdoctoral Research Associate on POPBACK project , Loughborough University Dr Fanni Toth is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Insititute for Media and Creative Industries (IMCI) at Loughborough University London. She is currently working on the project ‘Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union (POPBACK)’, focusing on the Hungarian case study. Fanni’s research interests concentrate on democratisation, political attitudes, political communication and populist authoritarianism, with a regional focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex Dr Francesco Ventrella holds degrees in Art History from ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome (BA, MA) and the University of Leeds (PhD). In 2006 he was Visiting Fellow at the CentreCATH, University of Leeds and received a British Academy and Accademia dei Lincei Postgraduate Research Bursary in 2007. After first joining the Department of Art History at Sussex in 2012, Francesco was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship (2013-2016) and has been the recepient of the Paul Mellon Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome (Spring 2019). Francesco was a member of the ‘Writing Art History’ Research Forum at the Courtauld Institute (2007-10), and has served in the Humanities panel for the British Council and the Newton Fund. A former editor of parallax (2008-2011), he is now a member of the editorial board of Art History. Francesco is affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-study-of-sexual-dissidence/about/people
Professor of Demography, Bocconi University I am Professor of Demography and Rector of Bocconi University, Milan. Previously, I worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where I also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Head of the Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood). I also served as President and Secretary-General/Treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies, and I received the 'Clogg Award' from the Population Association of America in 2012. I am a Fellow of the British Academy, and an affiliate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
