23 January 2025 ~ 0 Comments

My Teammates

Over the course of the last few months, I had the pleasure to find new teammates for several research projects I am involved in. I wanted to take a moment to thank them for being part of my research life — and they have the kindness of calling me their supervisor or principal investigator. Here they are, in the order they joined ITU:

Lasse Alsbirk is a co-financed PhD student and at the center of a multi-partnered research project. He will work at the intersection of the Danish Police (financial crimes section), the AI Pioneer Center, and NERDS @ ITU. His project will focus on the application and development of network science tools to fight financial crimes. He has valuable abroad experience, having received his master degree in Israel.

Anders Aagaard Kristensen joins NERDS as PhD student, coming from the University of South Denmark, where he was working on machine learning methods. His PhD project will be about the use of deep learning and generative models to understand leaves of absence in work data. The idea is to predict, simulate and, ultimately, make interventions, so that workers will have less taxing working schedules, leading to fewer leaves for sickness reasons. Anders works jointly with the National Research Center for Work Environment (NFA), which finances his fellowship and provides the data.

Nikos Salamanos joins as postdoctoral researcher, coming from the Cyprus University of Technology, where he was working on applying network analysis to study social media information dissemination. Nikos will work on an interdisciplinary Villum Synergy project on archaeological data, where he’ll develop network analysis methods to deal with highly biased and incomplete data. The idea is to test how network analysis can aid archaeological research, ultimately applying the newly developed techniques to data retrieved from the remnants of the Roman Empire. The Villum Synergy project is a collaboration with a team of archaeologists led by Tom Brughmans at Aarhus University.

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