Network Inequality and Fairness Group

Computational Social Science Research

Elisabetta Salvai

I am a PhD candidate in the Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) at the University of Copenhagen and the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, supervised by Professor Roberta Sinatra. I am a guest researcher of the  Network, Data and Society group (NERDS) at the IT University of Copenhagen. I am currently a visiting researcher at TU Graz in the Computational Social Science and Network Inequality group led by Professor Fariba Karimi.

My work is driven by a curiosity about how fairness—or the lack of it—shapes our professional and digital worlds. My research interests lie at the intersection of algorithmic fairness and the science of science.

With a background in Physics of Complex Systems, I focus on quantifying and mitigating systemic biases within academic networks. Whether I’m analysing decades of conference diversity or de-biasing ranking algorithms, my goal is to ensure that visibility and opportunity in science are distributed equitably.