Short presentation

My research has covered a wide range topics in anthropology, political economy, social theory, and more methodologically, mixed digital methods and computational ethnography. Combining long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia and Europe with en enduring interest in theoretical as well as methodological innovation, I have contributed to several scientific fields, including anthropology and social data science. My anthropological research, funded via a Sapere Aude research leader grant from DFF and a FSE research project, has spearheaded international scholarship on the relationship between political forms and cultural imaginaries. As PI of the ERC Adv. grant on The Political Economy of Attention, and as co-founder and former director of the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science, I have helped develop computational anthropology specifically and the combination between social science and data science more generally. Currently, as chief scientist as the Centre for AI in Society (CAISA), I collaborate with the governmental Task for Artificial Intelligence and with CAISA colleagues from computer science, business intelligence and media studies, on issues relating to tech policy, digital sovereignty, and responsible AI.