The DSI Community
The DSI community includes staff and students from across the School through its Faculty and PhD Affiliate schemes, as well as visiting academics through the LSE Visiting Appointments and Visiting Research Student schemes. The DSI unites researchers across the LSE's range of social science disciplines through data science.
DSI Core Team
Professor Martin Anthony
Director and Professor of MathematicsEmail: DSI.Director@lse.ac.uk
Professor Cosmina Dorobantu
Professor in PracticeEmail: C.Dorobantu@lse.ac.uk
Professor Helen Margetts OBE
Senior AdviserEmail: H.Z.Margetts@lse.ac.uk
Professor Johannes Ruf
Deputy Director and Professor of Mathematics
Dr Ghita Berrada
Assistant Professor (Education)
Research Interests: Graph mining; Anomaly detection; Ethical ML/AI; Explainability; Rule mining/FCA; Machine Learning; Provenance; Databases; Decision Support Systems; Time series analysis
Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva
Assistant Professor (Education)Research Interests: Complex Network Analysis; Machine Learning; Data Science Management
Toby Edison
Data Engineer at Zambia Evidence Lab (ZEL), International Growth Centre and Data Science InstituteResearch Interests: Large Language Models; Data Automation; Databases; GIS Data Analysis; Dashboarding.
Sara Luxmoore
Research Officer
Jinshuai Ma
Research Officer in Data ScienceResearch Interests: Text analysis; Natural language processing; Human-centered software design; Physiological signal analysis
Email: DSI.Computing@lse.ac.uk
Dr Florian Ostmann
Distinguished Policy FellowEmail: F.Ostmann@lse.ac.uk
Chris Thomas
Policy FellowEmail: c.thomas18@lse.ac.uk
Jill Beattie
Institute ManagerEmail: DSI.Manager@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7759
Emily Cruz
Senior Communications and Events Manager
Email: DSI.Comms@lse.ac.ukTuring University Network Liaison (Administrative)
Email: DSI.Turing.Admin@lse.ac.uk
Ali Eggleton
Finance and Operations OfficerEmail: DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk
Ellie Finlay
Events OfficerEmail: DSI.Events@lse.ac.uk
Kevin Kittoe
Teaching and Assessment AdministratorEmail: DSI.Ug@lse.ac.uk
Pauline Kinniburgh
Senior Research ManagerEmail: p.kinniburgh@lse.ac.uk
Johanna Tate
Communications and Events ManagerEmail: DSI.Comms@lse.ac.uk
Sabrina Vettorato
Project AdministratorEmail: s.vettorato@lse.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Bramwell
Email: S.Bramwell@lse.ac.uk
Pedro Da Costa Avelar
Email: p.da-costa-avelar@lse.ac.uk
Tabtim Duenger
Senior Data Scientist, The EconomistEmail: T.M.Duenger@lse.ac.uk
Riya Chhikara
Data Scientist, The EconomistEmail: R.Chhikara@lse.ac.uk
Yassine Lahna
Email: Y.Lahna@lse.ac.uk
Barry Ledeatte
Email: B.Ledeatte@lse.ac.uk
Jonas Weinert
Email: j.weinert@lse.ac.uk
The LSE Data Science Institute (DSI) provides an innovative teaching and learning environment, placing value on an interdisciplinary focus and high levels of student satisfaction.
Due to ever-increasing student interest in DSI courses, GTAs and Guest Teachers with a passion for teaching, providing excellent academic and pastoral support, and delivering academic activities to enhance the student experience are required.
Our posts are designed to offer outstanding teachers the chance to develop their skills and educational practice within supportive surroundings.
Would you like to join our teaching team? Please express an interest in joining us below. We will be in touch during the next selection window.
You are eligible if you have a Masters or are a PhD student in data science or related fields (such as, programming, data wrangling and machine learning)
Vincent Chung
PhD Candidate in Geography
LSE Data Science PhD Studentship
Wendy Wang
PhD Candidate in Social Research Methods
DSI Affiliate Networks
DSI Faculty Affiliates are members of staff from across LSE who are engaged with data science and AI in their research and teaching. Affiliates participate in the activities of the institute and have special access to its resources.
Please note that only LSE staff are eligible to apply for DSI Faculty Affiliate status. If you have any questions please email DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk.
Apply to become a DSI Faculty AffiliateDSI PhD Affilates are doctoral researchers, from departments across LSE, who have an interest in data science and artificial intelligence, whether they are interested in applications for their research, are studying the social scientific implications of AI and data or are working on fundamental methodologies.
Find out more about the scheme and apply to join
Luqman Abu El Foul
Department of Government
Elise Aguzzoli
Department of Health Policy
Sophie Almekinders
Department of Economics
Carmen Arbaizar
Department of Economics
Francisco Aristi Reina
Department of Mathematics
Dimitrios Athanasiou
Department of Economics
Sonja Belkin
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Daniela Baeza Breinbauer
Department of Geography and Environment
Arnauld Balner
Department of International History
Roop Bhadury
Department of Management
Hannah Bunt
Department of Psychological and Behaviour Science
Christian Cervellera
Department of Government
Jaesun Chae
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Alexandra Chesterfield
Department of Psychological and Behaviour Science
Vincent Chung
Department of Geography and Environment
Marco Cokic
Department of Economic History
Christy Coulson
Department of Methodology
Parashar Das
LSE Law School
Carlos Diaz
Department of Management
Bennet Feld
Department of Economics
Cèlia Estruch Garcia
Department of Government
Philipp Gagel
Department of Management
Alejandro Garcia Cabrera
Department of Geography and Environment
Benjamin Ginsburg Hix
Department of Government
Maximilian Goehmann
Department of Management
Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos
Department of Economic History
Weiheng Guan
Department of Government
Feng Han
Department of Government
Sakina Hansen
Department of Statistics
Isolde Hegemann
Department of Government
Zarja Hude
LSE Law School
Gaetano Inglese
Department of Government
Jensen Jiang
Department of Government
Markus Karl
Department of Mathematics
Yusuf Khan
Department of Government
Susanne Klausing
Department of Management
Anton Könneke
Department of Government
Galina Korionova
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Charlotte Kuberka
Department of Government
Caroline Leeds-Ruby
LSE Law School
YangYang Liu
Department of Economic History
Meike Beatrice Lorenz
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Tao Ma
Department of Statistics
Luca Marsico
Department of Government
Roberto Rafael Maura Rivero
Department of Economics
Domenico Mergoni
Department of Mathematics
Lennard Metson
Department of Government
Georgia Meyer
Department of Management
Thomas Monk
Department of Economics
Leif Monnett
Department of International Relations
Colm Mulcahy
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Asami Narita
Department of Methodology
Alexander Niederklapfer
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Sabrina Paiwand
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Pauline Pearcy
Department of Health Policy
Caleb Phillips
Department of Management
Edward Plumb
Department of Mathematics
Elena Pro
European Institute
Ahana Raina
Department of International Development
Sharon Raj
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Shivani Rao
Department of Media and Communications
Vastav Ratra
Department of Economics
Sarthak Saluja
Department of Health Policy
Salma Salem
Department of International Development
Moritz Schnorpfeil
Department of Philosophy
Brooke Scoles
Department of Health Policy
Sia Sha
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Haoran Shi
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Luca Siepmann
European Institute
Mohammad Fadil Sumun
Department of Statistics
Kay-Leigh Sussman
Department of Health Policy
Abhijit Tagade
Department of Economics
Juliet-Nil Uraz
Department of Social Policy
Tarsha Vasu
Department of Government
Lorenzo Vicari
Department of Government
Chuyao Wang
Department of Methodology
Wanying Wang
Department of Health Policy
Mac Wang
Department of Methodology
Ruilan Wang
Department of Mathematics
Mara Weber
Department of Methodology
Jan Henrik Wasserziehr
Department of Government
Jonas Weinert
Department of Health Policy
Felix Willuweit
Department of International Development
Shui Ling Wong
Department of Health Policy
Peter Wyckoff
Department of Government
Yuqing Xie
Department of Statistics
Yuxuan Xu
Department of Statistics
Yiwen Zhang
Department of Government
Xinghe Zhu
Department of Statistics
Binjie Zou
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Visitors to the DSI
The Visiting Appointments scheme allows staff from other institutions to benefit from the level of involvement similar to that enjoyed by DSI Affiliates.
Professor Nello Cristianini
Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bath
Visiting Professor
Dr James Hamp
Director and Head of FX Data Strategy and Analytics, Citi
Visiting Fellow
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn and Manas AI
Visiting Senior Fellow
Dr Parag Khanna
Founder & CEO, AlphaGeo
Visiting Senior Fellow
The Data Science institute is delighted to host visiting research students. If you would be interested in finding out more about spending time at the DSI during your research please email DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk.
Anastasiia Menshikova (WT 2024)
PhD Candidate from the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden
Nader Hotait (AT 2023)
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Mannheim, Germany
Paride Carrara (WT and ST 2023)
PhD Candidate in Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
Riccardo Ricciardi (AT 2022)
PhD Candidate in Statistics and Data Science at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy
Clint Claessen (WT 2022)
PhD Candidate at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel
Philipp Darius (AT 2021)
PhD Candidate in Governance at the Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School
Advisers to the DSI
The DSI Management Committee exists to ensure the coordination of DSI activities with research, teaching, and outreach in data science across the various units of the school.
The Committee also provides input that shapes the goals of the DSI and its strategy for meeting those goals.
Membership:
Professor Michael Laver
Visiting Professor, Department of Methodology
Professor Susana Mourato
(ex-officio) Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research
Dr Alison Powell
Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications
Professor Andrew Murray
Professor of Law, LSE Law School
Professor Bernhard Von Stengel
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Professor Patrick Sturgis
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Department of Methodology
Professor Milan Vojnović
Professor and Head of Department, Department of Statistics
The Data Science Education Forum exists to ensure the quality and coordination of data science teaching and learning across the School.
The responsibilities of the DSI Education Forum include facilitating effective communication with stakeholders across the School, collaborating on the provision and design of data science components offered by the Digital Skills Lab (DSL), and overseeing content development of DSI-led modules.
Membership:
Professor Peter Allen
Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jeni Brown
Head of LSE Digital Skills Lab
Professor Emma McCoy
(ex-officio) Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education
Professor Irini Moustaki
Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Statistics
Dr Antonio Mele
Assistant Professor of Economics (Education), Department of Economics
Dr Thomas Smith
Associate Professor in Environmental Geography, Department of Geography and Environment
Dr Milena Tsvetkova
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology
Dr Yang Yang
Senior Academic Developer, LSE Eden Centre for Education Enhancement