I am a postdoc researcher at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna for the project on Multi-attribute, Multimodal Bias Mitigation in AI Systems (MAMMOth) and a member of the Computational Social Science and Networked Inequality group led by Fariba Karimi. Also, I collaborate with the Biocomplex Lab at the University of Exeter and the Social & Health Complexity Center at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I graduated with an undergraduate and master’s degree in industrial engineering at the Universidad de Los Andes in 2017 and 2019, respectively. I started to research social networks and complex systems in 2017 when, together with my advisors, Dr Felipe Montes and Prof. Olga Lucía Sarmiento, I received third place for the best undergraduate thesis in social sciences in Colombia for the project: “ Social cohesion emerging from a community-based physical activity program: A temporal network analysis”. In 2018 I was a visiting researcher at the Health Disparities & Cultural Identities Lab of the psychology department at Florida International University. The research trip was funded by a Bridge Grant from the Young Researchers of the Complex Systems Society.
During my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, UK, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Ronaldo Menezes, Prof. Hywel Williams, and Prof. Nicola Perra. During my doctoral training, I studied the effect of segregation and diversity on scientific impact in Computer Science, applying sociology of science theories with computer science methodologies, specifically, understanding the gender effect on co-authorship networks of top-ranked researchers and their relationship with academic mobility, citation histories of papers of different segregation categories, and the scientific impact of demographically diverse papers written in different segregation categories.
A great curiosity to understand human behaviour on a social and collective level has led me to work with engineering, psychology, social sciences, education, and public health researchers. My research focuses on applying the complex systems paradigm to the science of science, education, and public health. I am interested in developing models to study social behaviours using complex systems, especially network science analysis, and inform data-driven interventions. The ultimate goal of my research is to create support, academic, and caring networks that help the knighting towards cognitive justice and democratization of knowledge.
Network Inequality and Fairness Group 