Prof. David Garcia
ResearcherID: A-2113-2014
ORCID: 0000-0002-2820-9151
Scopus: 56817130300
Google Scholar Profil
- Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science – University of Konstanz Department of Politics and Public Administration since October 2022
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Member of the Extended Directorate of the Centre for HUMAN | DATA | SOCIETY
- Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (since 2017)
- External faculty (privatdozent) – TU Graz (since 2022)
- External faculty (privatdozent) – ETH Zurich (since 2018)
- Full Professor for Computational Behavioral and Social Sciences – TU Graz
- Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering (2020 – 2023)
- Group leader – Medical University of Vienna (2017 - 2022)
- Leading a Vienna Research Group funded by the WWTF
- Senior researcher – ETH Zurich (2015 - 2017)
Research on emotions and polarization in participatory media, funded by the Swiss SNF - Postdoctoral researcher – ETH Zurich (2012 - 2014)
Research on digital traces of emotions, privacy, and resilience in social media - Research Assistant – Chair of Systems Design (2009 - 2012)
Participation in EU FP7 project Cyberemotions, taking part on project reporting and reviews
Responsible of the ICT infrastructure of the chair. User and systems administration - Research Assistant – Network Visualization (2008 - 2009)
Developer of Cuttlefish a graph visualization project Java - Master Thesis and Research Assistant – ETH Zurich (2008 - 2009): Analysis of higher-order structures of equilibrium networks, supervised by Prof. Peter Widmayer
- Semester Project – International Conflict Research (March - June 2008)
ETH Zurich. Supervisor: Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman. Agent-based modeling of resource conflict. - Student Internship, Knowledge Engineering Institute UAM (2006 - 2007): Development of machine learning systems for fraud detection
Academic and Research Service
- Chair of the Curriculum commission for Computational Social Science at TU Graz (2021-2023)
- Member of the GESIS Coordination Group for Digital Behavioral Data (2022-) Chair of the Curriculum commission for Computational Social Science at TU Graz (2021-)
Review Service
- Senior program committee member of ICWSM 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Associate editor of EPJ Data Science
- Guest editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Editor of the Journal of Digital Social Research Program Chair of NetSci 2023 Vienna
- General Chair of the European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science 2019: Polarization and Radicalization
- Guest editor of PLOS One Reviewer for journals including Nature, Science, Nature Communications, PNAS, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Nature Human Behavior, PLOS One, and Journal of the Royal Society
- Interface Programme Committee member of WWW ’15 – ’18, KDD ’17, SocialCom ’13, ’14, HyperText ’14, ’15, NetSci, IC2S2, CSS Winter Symposium [Full Service List]
Awards
- Spanish Data Protection
- Agency 2022: 2nd Prize
- WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators 2016 (1.6 Million Euro) Research on social resilience listed in MIT Technology Review Best of 2013 1st prize in the 6th and 8th ETH Science Slams and in the Zurich Euraxess Slam Comunidad de Madrid: University access (2003) and Excellence Scholarships (2004 and 2005)
Advisory positions in industry
Kuourm.org, R&D Advisor since April 2015 Carbon Delta, Data Science Advisor (2015-2017)
Education
- December 2022: Approval of habilitation (umhabilitierung) at TU Graz February 2018: Habilitation in Computational Social Science (Venia Legendi) at ETH Zurich
- Habilitation thesis: Understanding Emotions and Social Interactions in the Digital Society October 2012: Dr. ETH Zurich, Chair of Systems Design
- Doctoral thesis: Modeling collective emotions in online communities August 2009: M.S. ETH Zurich, Computer Science, Theory of Computation track
- Master thesis title: Higher-order Distributions of Complex Networks. June 2007: B.S. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Computer Engineering