Jana Lasser
Professor at University of Graz
Graz, Styria, Austria
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Top SchoolJana Lasser is a computational social scientist and professor leading the Complex Social & Computational Systems group at the IDea_Lab, University of Graz, with 11 years of interdisciplinary research experience bridging data science, machine learning, NLP, network analysis and computational modeling. Her work investigates emergent phenomena in socio-technical systems—recently focusing on counterspeech effectiveness, misinformation spread, evolving norms of honesty, and the societal impacts of recommendation algorithms. Trained as a physicist (PhD, University of Göttingen), she brings a quantitative, systems-level perspective informed by prior fluid-dynamics and field-study research at Max Planck and Complexity Science Hub. She combines rigorous modeling with real-world attention to platform dynamics and policy-relevant questions, running an active academic program that spans theory, measurement, and intervention design. An unassuming strength is her track record of translating complex physical-science methods into tools for social-data problems, enabling novel insights into how algorithmic and human behaviors co-evolve.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at The University of Göttingen
English, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (26)
extraction10
orange10
network-analysis9
image-processing9
location9
python8
twitter-api8
twitter7
json6
cli5
command-line-tool5
tinyurl4
bitly4
api3
deep-learning3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
debsankha/network_course_python
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
JanaLasser/salt-polygons-are-caused-by-convection
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 14 pushes in 5 months
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