DSI Faculty Affiliates
DSI Faculty Affiliates are members of staff from across LSE who are engaged with data science and AI in their research and teaching.
Please note that only LSE staff are eligible to apply for DSI Faculty Affiliate status. If you have any questions please email dsi.comms@lse.ac.uk.
DSI Faculty Affiliates
Dr Marcos Barreto
Associate Professor (Education) and Department Lead on AI in Education
Department of Statistics
Professor Pauline Barrieu
Professor and Vice Chair of the Appointments Committee
Department of Statistics
Professor Charlie Beckett
Professor of Practice, Director of Polis and the Polis/LSE JournalismAI project
Department of Media and Communications
Professor Jonathan Birch
Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience
LSE Fellow
Department of Government
Dr Yunxiao Chen
Associate Professor and MSc Health Data Science Programme Director (joint with Health Policy)
Department of Statistics
Dr Alexandra Cirone
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, EMPA/EMPP Programme Co-Director
School of Public Policy, Department of Government
Professor Riccardo Crescenzi
Professor of Economic Geography; Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Department of Geography and Environment
Eugenie Dugoua
Associate Professor of Environmental Economics
Department of Geography and Environment, The Global School of Sustainability
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Professor Alexander Evans OBE FRHistS
Professor in Practice, Associate Dean for Strategic Development, MPA in Data Science for Public Policy Programme Director
School of Public Policy
Dr Carrie Friese
Associate Professor in Sociology
Department of Sociology, The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience
LSE Fellow
Department of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
Dr Sakshi Ghai
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Michael Gmeiner
Assistant Professor of Economics (Education) | Deputy Undergraduate Programme Director
Department of Economics
Professorial Research Fellow
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
Dr Asiya Islam
Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation
Department of Gender Studies
Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos
Associate Professor and MSc Statistics Deputy Programme Director - Kostas is on sabbatical in AT 2026.
Department of Statistics
Dr Ieva Kazlauskaitė
Assistant Professor and MSc Data Science Deputy Programme Director
Department of Statistics
Director of the Policing and Crime research group
Centre for Economic Performance
Dr Christian Krekel
Associate Professor of Behavioural Science
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Dr Dario Krpan
Associate Professor of Behavioural Science
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Jonathan Leape
Associate Professor of Economics | IGC Executive Director (In Secondment)
Department of Economics
Dr Giulia Livieri
Associate Professor and MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Deputy Programme Director
Department of Statistics
Dr Jens Koed Madsen
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Digital Innovation Lead
LSE Law School
Dr Angelo Martelli
Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy
European Institute
Antonio Mele
Associate Professor of Economics (Education) | Undergraduate Programme Director
Department of Economics
Learning Developer, Data Science Tools
Digital Skills Lab
Professor Michael Muthukrishna
Professor of Economic Psychology
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Dr Jean-Christophe Plantin
Associate Professor | Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Department of Media and Communications
Head of Data and AI Policy Partnerships
International Growth Centre
Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Dr Chengchun Shi
Associate Professor and MPhil/PhD Programme Director - Chengchun is on sabbatical in AT 2026.
Department of Statistics
Shantanu Singh
Senior Policy Fellow (Global Impact Group)
The Global School of Sustainability, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Professor Elizabeth Stokoe
Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact)
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Professor Zoltán Szabó
Professor of Data Science and MSc Data Science Programme Director
Department of Statistics
Dr Ben Tappin
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Ana Varela Varela
Assistant Professor of Geographic Data Science
Department of Geography and Environment
Deputy Research Director and Associate Professorial Research Fellow
Grantham Research Institute
Professor Tengyao Wang
Professor and MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) Programme Director
Department of Statistics
Head of Research Computing
LSE
Dr Andreas Søjmark
Assistant Professor and MSc Quantitative Methods for Risk Management Programme Director
Department of Statistics
Professor Youngjin Yoo
Professor of Information Systems and Innovation, Academic Director of LSE Lifelong Learning Digital & Innovation
Department of Management
