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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.

Academic Staff - Senior Academic Team
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Professor Martin Anthony

Director, Data Science Institute 

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Email: DSI.Director@lse.ac.uk

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Dr Cosmina Dorobantu

Senior Adviser 

Email: C.Dorobantu@lse.ac.uk 

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Professor Helen Margetts OBE

Senior Adviser 

 Email: H.Z.Margetts@lse.ac.uk

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Professor Johannes Ruf

Deputy Director, Data Science Institute 

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Executive Assistant to the Senior Academic Team

Email: DSI.Execassist@lse.ac.uk 

Academic - Teaching and Research
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Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva

Assistant Professor (Education)

Research Interests: Complex Network Analysis; Machine Learning; Data Science Management

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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

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Sara Luxmoore

Sara Luxmoore

Research Officer 

Jinshuai Ma

Jinshuai Ma

Research Officer in Data Science

Research Interests: Text analysis; Natural language processing; Human-centered software design; Physiological signal analysis

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Email: DSI.Computing@lse.ac.uk

Zoltán Szabó

Professor Zoltán Szabó

Turing University Network Liaison (Academic)

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Email: DSI.Turing.Academic@lse.ac.uk


Professional Services Staff
Jill Beattie

Jill Beattie

Institute Manager
Email: DSI.Manager@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7759

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Emily Cruz

Communications and Events Manager
Email: DSI.Comms@lse.ac.uk
Turing University Network Liaison (Administrative)
Email: DSI.Turing.Admin@lse.ac.uk

Ali Eggleton

Ali Eggleton

Institute Administrator
Email: DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk

Ellie Finlay

Ellie Finlay

Events Officer
Email: DSI.Events@lse.ac.uk

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Executive Assistant to the Senior Academic Team
Email: DSI.Execassist@lse.ac.uk


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 Kevin Kittoe

Teaching and Assessment Administrator
Email: DSI.Ug@lse.ac.uk 

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Johanna Tate 

Communications and Events Manager
Email: DSI.Comms@lse.ac.uk

Guest Teachers
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Dr Stuart Bramwell 
Email: S.Bramwell@lse.ac.uk

Tabtim Duenger

Tabtim Duenger 
Senior Data Scientist, The Economist 
Email: T.M.Duenger@lse.ac.uk

Riya Chhikara

Riya Chhikara 
Data Scientist, The Economist 
Email: R.Chhikara@lse.ac.uk

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Yassine Lahna
Email: Y.Lahna@lse.ac.uk

 

 

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Barry Ledeatte
Email: B.Ledeatte@lse.ac.uk

Alexander Soldatkin

Alexander Soldatkin 
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford, Director of Studies, circle.institute
Email: A.Soldatkin1@lse.ac.uk

Andreas Stoffelbauer

Andreas Stöffelbauer
Data Scientist, Microsoft  

Email: A.Stoffelbauer1@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)

Please complete this form to express your interest

DSI GTAs and Guest Teachers

PhD Students
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Vincent Chung
PhD Candidate in Geography
LSE Data Science PhD Studentship
Email: v.j.chung@lse.ac.uk

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Wanting Wang

Wendy Wang
PhD Candidate in Social Research Methods
Email: w.wang75@lse.ac.uk

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Affiliates to the DSI

Faculty Affiliates


 Find out more about our Faculty Affiliates and their research

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.

Find out more about the DSI Affiliate Scheme. Please note that only LSE staff are eligible to apply for DSI Affiliate status. If you have any questions please email DSI.Admin@lse.ac.uk.

Apply to become a DSI Affiliate

PhD Affiliates

DSI 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

Elise Aguzzoli
Department of Health Policy
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Francisco Aristi Reina
Department of Mathematics
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Dimitrios Athanasiou
Department of Economics
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Daniela Baeza Breinbauer
Department of Geography and Environment 
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Arnauld Balner
Department of International History
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Roop Bhadury
Department of Management
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Hannah Bunt
Department of Psychological and Behaviour Science

Alexandra Chesterfield 
Department of Psychological and Behaviour Science
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Vincent Chung 
Department of Geography and Environment 
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Marco Cokic
Department of Economic History

Christy Coulson
Department of Methodology
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Parashar Das 
LSE Law School
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Philipp Gagel 
Department of Management 
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Aristeidis Grivokostopoulos
Department of Economic History
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Feng Han
Department of Government 

Sakina Hansen
Department of Statistics 
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Isolde Hegemann
Department of Government

Zarja Hude
LSE Law School
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Gaetano Inglese
Department of Government 
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Ruhi Khan
Department of Media and Communications
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Susanne Klausing
Department of Management 
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Anton Könneke
Department of Government 

Charlotte Kuberka
Department of Government 

Caroline Leeds-Ruby
LSE Law School
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YangYang Liu
Department of Economic History 

Tao Ma
Department of Statistics
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Roberto Rafael Maura Rivero
Department of Economics 
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Domenico Mergoni
Department of Mathematics
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Lennard Metson 
Department of Government 

Georgia Meyer
Department of Management 
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Alexander Niederklapfer
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method 

Sabrina Paiwand 
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science 

Pauline Pearcy 
Department of Health Policy
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Caleb Phillips
Department of Management 
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Edward Plumb
Department of Mathematics  
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Elena Pro
European Institute 
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Sharon Raj
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
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Shivani Rao
Department of Media and Communications 
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Vastav Ratra
Department of Economics 
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Sarthak Saluja
Department of Health Policy
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Moritz Schnorpfeil
Department of Philosophy 

Sia Sha
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science 

Haoran Shi
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science 
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Mohammad Fadil Sumun
Department of Statistics 
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Kay-Leigh Sussman
Department of Health Policy
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Chuyao Wang
Department of Methodology
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Wanying Wang
Department of Health Policy
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Mac Wang
Department of Methodology
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Jan Henrik Wasserziehr
Department of Government 
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Jonas Weinert
Department of Health Policy
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Peter Wyckoff
Department of Government
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Xinghe Zhu
Department of Statistics

Visitors to the DSI

Visiting Appointments

The Visiting Appointments scheme allows staff from other institutions to benefit from the level of involvement similar to that enjoyed by DSI Affiliates.

Nicole Baerg

Dr Nicole Baerg 
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Essex
Visiting Senior Fellow

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DrSianBrooke

Dr Siân Brooke
Assistant Professor, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
Visiting Fellow

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John Burn-Murdoch
Chief Data Reporter, the Financial Times
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Gokhan Ciflikli

Dr Gökhan Çiflikli
Director of Data & AI, Superside
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Dr Raju Chinthalapati
Reader of Financial Technologies, Goldsmith University
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Professor Nello Cristianini
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
University of Bath
Visiting Professor

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James Hamp

Dr James Hamp
Director and Head of FX Data Strategy and Analytics, Citi
Visiting Fellow

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Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn and Manas AI
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Dr Ajay Kumar 
Associate Professor of Business Analytics, Emlyon Business School
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Professor Michael Laver 
Emeritus Professor of Politics, New York University
Visiting Professor

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Tom Pas

Dr Tom Paskhalis
Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Visiting Fellow

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Professor Mairéad Pratschke 
Professor and SALC Chair in Digital Education 
University of Manchester
Visiting Professor

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Professor Ehud Shapiro
Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Visiting Professor

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Dr Miriam Sorace
Associate Professor of Business Analytics, University of Reading
Visiting Senior Fellow

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Josh Townsley

Dr Joshua Townsley 
Senior UX Researcher, WhatsApp
Visiting Fellow

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Professor Gyorgy Turan
Professor, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois
Visiting Professor

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Joyce Zeng 
Manager & Insurtech Lead, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Visiting Fellow

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Visiting Research Students
Anastasiia Menshikova

Anastasiia Menshikova (WT 2024)
PhD Candidate from the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden

Nader Hotait

Nader Hotait (AT 2023)
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Mannheim, Germany

 

Paride Carrara

Paride Carrara (WT and ST 2023)
PhD Candidate in Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy

Riccardo Ricciardi

Riccardo Ricciardi (AT 2022)
PhD Candidate in Statistics and Data Science at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, Italy

Clint Claessen

Clint Claessen (WT 2022)
PhD Candidate at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel

Fintan Oeri

Fintan Oeri (AT 2021)
PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel

Phillip Darius

Philipp Darius (AT 2021)
PhD Candidate in Governance at the Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School

 

Advisers to the DSI

DSI Management Committee

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 Quantative Social Science, Department of Methodology

Professor Zoltán Szabó 
Professor of Data Science, Department of Statistics

Data Science Education Forum

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

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