Thales Bertaglia
Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThales Bertaglia is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University with a decade of experience at the intersection of computational social science, digital governance, and NLP-driven machine learning. As part of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, he studies how content monetisation affects fairness, transparency, and accountability on social platforms, translating legal norms into measurable computational tasks. His work spans creator-economy dynamics, algorithmic governance interventions, and building reproducible, explainable AI tools to detect online harms and assess real-world impact. Thales combines academic rigor from a PhD at Maastricht with industry experience at Microsoft and Amazon, and maintains practical NLP contributions such as a Portuguese text normalizer developed during his master's. He is particularly focused on creating legally grounded, user-empowering systems that bridge research, policy, and platform practice.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Maastricht UniversityStudent Exchange Program Computer Science, Student Exchange Program Computer Science at KU LeuvenMaster's Degree Computer Science and Computational Mathematics, Master's Degree Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at USP - Universidade de São PauloBachelor Degree Computer Science, Bachelor Degree Computer Science at Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
Spanish, Portuguese, German, English
Github Skills (15)
instagram10
user-generated-content10
instaloader10
normalization10
natural-language-processing9
machine-learning9
nlp9
metadata9
python8
social-media4
synthetic-data2
synthetic-dataset-generation2
social-network-analysis2
chatgpt1
llm1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thalesbertaglia/thalesbertaglia.github.io
May 2016 - Jan 2025
My personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 220 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 9 months
reactnextjs
thalesbertaglia/enelvo
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
A flexible normalizer for user-generated content
Contributions:19 releases, 150 commits, 152 PRs in 4 years
nlpflexibleuser-generated-contentnormalizernormalization
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