Dr Valentin Danchev

Biography

Valentin is a Lecturer in Computational Social Science in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His research leverages large datasets and methods from computational social science, social data science, and network analysis to study diverse social phenomena such as transparency and reproducibility of scientific research, human mobility, global migration, inequality, and digital-health interventions. Valentin's background is interdisciplinary and has involved collaborations across sciences. He completed his DPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford where he studied global migration and network science, and was also affiliated with the networks research group at the Mathematical Institute. Prior to joining Essex in 2020, he held postdoctoral positions at the Stanford University School of Medicine and, before that, at the University of Chicago. He is a strong supporter of open and reproducible research practices. He has a special interest in designing data-sharing interventions and socio-technological infrastructures to incentivise open research and data-driven discovery at scale. As a social data science educator, Valentin strives to enable open, inclusive, and collaborative learning, and to bring ethics, computing, machine learning, causal inference, and data to bear on critical societal issues.

Qualifications

• DPhil Development Studies University of Oxford, (2015)

• MA Sociological Research University of Essex, (2010)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex (1/7/2020 - present)