TWIN4DEM welcomes its Advisory Board
TWIN4DEM is pleased to announce the establishment of its Advisory Board (AB), composed of distinguished experts in the fields of computational social science, democracy research, and digital ethics. The Advisory Board provides valuable external guidance to ensure the scientific excellence, ethical integrity, and strategic relevance of the project’s activities.
The members of the board play a key role in supporting the project’s scientific excellence and strategic direction. Its members provide independent advice on the project’s progress once a year and, when necessary, on extraordinary occasions.
TWIN4DEM is honoured to collaborate with this group of internationally recognised experts whose diverse perspectives and insights will support the project in achieving its objectives and maximising its societal and scientific impact.
Members of the TWIN4DEM Advisory Board include:
Natasha Wunsch
University of Fribourg
Prof. Dr. Wunsch holds the Chair in European Studies at the University of Fribourg and is Director of its Centre for European Studies. Her research focuses on democratic backsliding, the rise of populism, and EU enlargement.
Hans Gersbach
ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Gersbach is Full Professor of Macroeconomics: Innovation & Policy at ETH Zurich and co‑director of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute. His research spans institutional and political economics, financial stability, and the design of economic and political institutions.
Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo
Aarhus University
Prof. Nielbo is affiliated with the School of Culture & Society / Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University and works at the intersection of AI, digital humanities and large‑scale text/metadata analysis.
Wouter van Atteveldt
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Claudio Novelli
Yale University
Dr. Novelli is a scholar of legal and political philosophy affiliated with Yale University’s Digital Ethics Center. His work examines the implications of emerging technologies and contributes to governance and policy debates around digital transformation.
Melis G. Laebens
Central European University
Dr. Laebens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the CEU and researches democratic backsliding, political parties and electoral behaviour with a focus on Turkey and Poland.
Johannes Breuer
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) & University of Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Breuer is head of the team “Research Data & Methods” at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, and professor of “Digital Social Science” at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on digital trace data and computational methods and how they can be used to study individual and societal effects of digital technologies.
Goda Mockute
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ms Mockute is the AI Innovation & Partnerships Manager at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She supports researchers in shaping collaborations around AI and focuses on ensuring that AI is developed and applied in an ethical and socially responsible way.
Kalliopi Spyridaki
Chief Privacy Strategist, EMEA & AP at SAS
Ms Spyridaki is a lawyer and a public policy professional with extensive expertise in global privacy frameworks as well as AI policy, ethics and regulation. She serves as Chief Privacy Strategist, EMEA and Asia Pacific at SAS.
Tarun Khaitan
London School of Economics & Political Science
Prof. Khaitan is Chair of Public Law at LSE Law School. His research spans constitutional theory, public law, discrimination law, and democratic design.
Scott de Marchi
Duke University
Prof. de Marchi is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Decision Science program at Duke University. His research focuses on mathematical methods, especially bargaining theory, computational social science, and machine learning. Substantively, he examines decision-making in contexts that include the American Congress, coalition and crisis bargaining, interstate conflict, and voting behavior.