Bio

Find here a detailed CV (last update: 2021-07-18).

Short Bio

Roberta Sinatra is a Full Professor in Data Science at the University of Copenhagen (KU), and holds visiting positions at IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), ISI Foundation (Turin, Italy), and Complexity Science Hub (Vienna, Austria). She co-founded the NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS) Research group at ITU, which she coordinated until 2022, and is a co-lead at the AI pioneer center in Copenhagen. Her research is at the forefront of network science, data science, and computational social science. Roberta did her BSc, MSc, and PhD in Physics at the University of Catania, Italy, and is an alumna of the Scuola Superiore di Catania. She was first a James McDonnell postdoctoral fellow, then a research faculty at the Center for Complex Network Research of Northeastern University (Boston MA, USA). Her research has been published in top-tier venues like Nature and Science, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, The Guardian, The Washington Post, among other major media outlets. Her research has been awarded the Complex Systems Society Junior prize, the DPG Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics, and a Villum Young Investigator grant.

Research keywords: Network Science, Data Science, Science of Science, Complex Systems, Computational Social Science.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude), University of Catania, February 2012.
  • Diploma di Licenza Specialistica per l’Eccellenza in Physics (summa cum laude), Scuola Superiore di Catania, December 2008.
  • M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics (summa cum laude), University of Catania, December 2007.
  • Diploma di Licenza Triennale per l’Eccellenza in Physics (summa cum laude), Scuola Superiore di Catania, October 2006.
  • B.Sc. major in Physics and Mathematics (summa cum laude), University of Catania, October 2005.

Current Positions

  • Oct 2022 – present: Full Professor, SODAS, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • Oct 2020 – present: Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • Feb 2019 – Sep 2020: Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • Oct 2020 – present: Affiliated Researcher, ISI Foundation, Torino (Italy)
  • Apr 2017 – present: External Faculty at Complexity Science Hub, Vienna (Austria)

Past Positions

  • Oct 2017 – Oct 2020: ISI Fellow, ISI Foundation, Torino (Italy)
  • Jan 2016 – Jan 2019: Assistant Professor, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)
  • Feb 2015 – Jan 2016: Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Complex Network Research and Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston (MA, USA)
  • Apr 2014 – Apr 2015: Visiting Research Scholar, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston (MA, USA)
  • Apr 2012 – Jan 2015: JSMF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Network Research and Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston (MA, USA)