Team
Prof Giuseppe A. Veltri
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri ha conseguito un MSc in Metodi di Ricerca Sociale (Statistica) presso il dipartimento di Metodologia della London School of Economics (LSE) e un PhD in Psicologia Sociale presso la LSE. È Professore Ordinario di Scienze Sociali Computazionali e Behavioural Data Science presso il Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale dell’Università di Trento. He has been a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and a scientific fellow at the European Commission JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS). Before joining the IPTS, he has been a research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris. He has published in scientific journals such as Nature, Science Advances, Nature Scientific Reports, PLOS One, Computers in Human Behavior, Public Understanding of Science, Big Data & Society, Behavioural Public Policy and others.
Flaminio Squazzoni is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan and director of BehaveLab. He teaches “Behavioural Sociology”. Until November 2018, he has been Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia, where he led the GECS-Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology.
He is editor of JASSS-Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, and member of the editorial boards of Research Integrity and Peer Review and Sistemi Intelligenti.
Dr Filippo Andrei
Filippo Andrei obtained his PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento in March 2024, with a thesis titled “Unveiling the Shadows: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding Social Influence Strategies for Establishing Social Order in Darknet Markets.” His research interests focus on the social mechanisms that create biases in the digital world, and he investigates how social and cognitive structures influence decision-making. His work has been published in international journals such as the European Sociological Review and the Social Science Computer Review.
Pietro Saccomanno
Pietro Saccomanno is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. His doctoral research, titled “The Emerging Market of Meme-News: How Political Internet Memes Inform Younger Generations and Shape their Opinions,” explores the intersections of digital sociology, communication and media studies. His broader research interests include the investigation of contemporary socio-cultural phenomena through experimental methodologies, with a particular emphasis on new forms of communication, public opinion dynamics, and individual behavior in digital environments.