Arianna Pera

Hi, welcome on my page ☀️

I am a PhD student in Computational Social Science at the IT University of Copenhagen where I joined the NERDS research group. I am a visiting PhD student at the School of Information at the University of Michigan until December 2024, working with Ceren Budak.

My research is part of the COllective COordination through Online Social media (COCOONS) research project, led by Prof. Luca Maria Aiello. My current focus is on identifying the prime elements in social interactions that can lead to the emergence of collective efforts towards finding solutions to social issues, such as climate change.

I have gratuated from the MSc in Data Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, with a thesis in the use of Natural Language Processing to explain biases in the online discourse, supervised by Prof. Matteo Luigi Palmonari.

My research interests span from natural language processing applied to social interactions, to complex systems models of human behavior and online opinion dynamics.

In my spare time, I enjoy baking (especially italian desserts 🇮🇹), running and playing board games.

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