Viktoria Spaiser
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Researcher in Sustainability & Computational Social Science

I am interested in sustainability research and specifically in how societies can make a rapid, fair and empowering transition to zero-emissions / zero-pollution. I apply mathematical and computational approaches to these and other social and political science research questions. I have worked on a wide range of topics, including political participation, e-democracy, protest, polarisation, democratisation, or segregation, using various sources of data, such as register data, cross-country panel data, Twitter data or smartphone data and various methodological approaches such as Bayesian statistics, dynamical systems modelling, agent-based modelling or big data analysis. However, my focus is now on climate change and sustainability research.

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November 2020, giving an invited talk (online webinar) on "Using smartphones to study environmental behaviour in a field-experimental setup. A Pilot Study" at the UCD School of Sociology Seminar Series 2020-2021, watch online here. 

October 2020, co-organising the "2nd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media" (MISDOOM 2020) online conference, Leiden University, the Netherlands. 

September 2020, co-organising and co-hosting the "Integrating quantitative social, ecological and mathematical sciences into landscape decision-making" semi-virtual workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. 

July 2020, I have been promoted to Associate Professor in Sustainability Research and Computational Social Science 

July 2020, contributed to the "Transition to a Sustainable Zero Pollution Economy" virtual workshops organized by the Imperial College London, in partnership with the EPSRC Big Ideas programme.