Dr. Daria Gritsenko is an Associate professor in Digital Social Science at the Center for Social Data Science at University of Helsinki (Finland). She holds a PhD in Political Science (2014) and a title of Docent in Environmental Policy (2018), both from the University of Helsinki. She is an expert in mixed methods research, in particular combining computational social science and qualitative approaches. Her most recent research explores the digital transformation of the state and society in the light of broader sustainability concerns. Gritsenko’s research has been funded among others by the Research Council of Finland, The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), the Fulbright Foundation, and the European Research Council (ERC). In 2021, Daria Gritsenko was awarded Nils Klim Prize “for her outstanding research contributions in the intersection between political science, environmental studies and digital humanities”.
Dr. (des.) David Karpa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Data Science at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He received his PhD in Economics (2024) from the University of Bremen (Germany). David's empirically driven work combines experimental and qualitative data. His work focuses on the digitalization and automation of governance in different contexts. More information about David's work and current project can be found on his website.
Vaibhav Argwal studies in the Master's programme Contemporay Societies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. His thesis focuses on the methodological challenges of experimentally studying the legitimacy of algorithmic governance. Vaibhav applies quantitative methods to different types of data.