[C1] – Scientific Publications
Scientific articles | Impact factor |
Carpentras, D., Maher, P. J., O’Reilly, C., & Quayle, M. (2023). How polarization extends to new topics: an agent-based model derived from experimental data. Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation. | 4.0 |
Lüders, A., Carpentras, D., & Quayle, M. (2023). Attitude Networks as Intergroup Realities: Using network-modeling to research attitude-identity relationships in polarizing political contexts. British Journal of Social Psychology. | 6.9 |
Helbing, D. et al. (2023). Democracy by Design: Perspectives for Digitally Assisted, Participatory Upgrades of Society. Participatory Upgrades of Society. Journal of Computational Science | 3.8 |
Carpentras, D., & Quayle, M. (2023). The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models’ predictions. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 26(2), 215-231. | 4.4 |
Carpentras, D, Lüders, A, & Quayle, (2022). Mapping the global opinion space to explain anti-vaccine attraction. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-9. | 4.5 |
Carpentras, D., Maher, P. J., O’Reilly, C., & Quayle, M. (2022). Deriving An Opinion Dynamics Model From Experimental Data. Journal of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation, 25(4). | 4.0 |
Carpentras, D., & Quayle, M. (2022). Propagation of measurement error in opinion dynamics models: The case of the Deffuant model. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 606, 127993. | 3.9 |
T Laforest, M Künzi, L Kowalczuk, Carpentras D, F Behar-Cohen, C Moser, (2020) Transscleral optical phase imaging of the human retina, Nature Photonics, 1-7 | 39 |
Carpentras, D., Laforest, T., Künzi, M. & Moser, C. (2018). Effect of backscattering in phase contrast imaging of the retina, Optics Express 26(6). | 3.5 |
Carpentras, D., & Moser, C. (2017). See-through ophthalmoscope for retinal imaging. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 22(5). | 2.8 |
Carpentras, D., Kulinsky, L., & Madou, M. (2015). A Novel Magnetic Active Valve for Lab-on-CD Technology. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 24(5). | 2.6 |
C2 – Letters and other publications
Carpentras, D. (2023) Why we are failing at connecting opinion dynamics to the empirical world. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 8 Mar 2023. |
Narasimhan et al. ESSA@work: Reflections and looking ahead. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 20 Feb 2023. |
Dignum, F., Edmonds, B. and Carpentras, D. (2022) Socio-Cognitive Systems – A Position Statement. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2nd Apr 2022. |
Carpentras et al. Where Now For Experiments In Agent-Based Modelling? Report of a Round Table as Part of SSC2021. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2nd Novermber 2021. |
Carpentras, D. Challenges and opportunities in expanding ABM to other fields: the example of psychology. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 20th December 2021. |
C3 – Packages
R package |
Warncke and Carpentras – ResIN: Response Item Networks (‘ResIN’) – Published on CRAN. |
C4 – Patents
Patent |
Laforest, T., Carpentras, D., Moser, C., Künzi, M. (2017). WO-2017195163, System, method and apparatus for retinal absorption phase and dark field imaging with oblique illumination, (2017). |
C5 – Invited presentations
Public events
- 11 December 2023 – Invited talk – Social Modelling and Simulations, University of Barcelona.
- 4 December 2023 – Invited talk – Workshop on the contemporary opportunities and challenges in the use of empirically calibrated agent-based models at the Linkoping university, Sweden
- 26 May 2023 – Invited talk – Distinguished 4IR webinar series at the University of Johannesburg – Analyzing Attitudes as Complex Networks – Methods and Findings
- 30 May 2023 – Invited talk – methods and research meetings at University of Lausanne – ResIN: A method for analyzing attitude networks and attitude positioning on a latent space
- 9 May 2023 – Invited panel discussion on transformations in the sciences and the ethics of reproducible science – Course on Digital Ethics and Politics
- 15 March 23 – Invited as expert – ESSA@WORK workshop, Social Simulation Fest
Private events
- 10 March 2023 – Invited talk – TeDCog group Bristol (Stephan Lewandowsky) – Analyzing attitude networks: Methods and findings
- 23 February 2023 – Invited talk – University of Cyprus – Agent-based modeling
- 4 Jan 2023 – Invited talk – CSSSA – A new degree of freedom in opinion dynamics: how scales completely change model’s properties
- 12 December – Invited talk – SPARC, Lancaster University – Analyzing attitude networks: Methods and findings
- 14 July 2022 – Invited lecture – BIGSSS Summer School – Analyzing attitudes systems with ResIN
C6 – Roles
- Editor for springer nature’s humanities and social sciences communications
- Coordinator of the Special interest group on Experimental ABM
- Coordinator of the Special interest group on Deeply empirical ABM
Previous roles
- Member and organizer for Essa@work
- Science communicator for the Pet cancer foundation, Canada
C7 – Organized events and issues
- Organizer for a workshop in Vienna, Austria with multiple participants with h index above 100. 11-13 September 2023, “Co-creating the future”
- Organizer of event “Digital Twins and Mechathon” at Complexity hub Vienna, 13 September 2023.
- Editor of special issue for Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A
- Organiser of session at the Social Simulation Fest 2022
- Organiser of session at the Social Simulation Conference 2021, 2022 and 2023
- Organiser of a workshop at SPSP 2023, the biggest conference in the world for Social Psychology.
- Organiser of an event in public schools on fake news
Invited roles
- Technical program Committee for Complex Networks 2023
- Chair for SACAIR 2021 – Conference on artificial intelligence
- Chair for ISPP 2021 – Conference on political psychology
- Session chair and/or committee for Social Simulation Conference 2021, 2022 and 2023.
C8 – Funding
Research funding and scholarships | Details |
Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual Fellowship PI: M. Quayle. I participated as: Fellow – 891347 | Funding 300k EUR |
SobigData++ Transnational Access PI: D. Helbing. I participated as: Visiting Scientist GA 871042 | Funding 5k EUR |
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme PI: M. Quayle. I participated as: Fellow* | Funding 91k EUR |
Gebert Rüf Stiftung, In-Vivo Neuronal Retinal Cells Imaging. PI: C. Moser. I participated as: PhD student – GRS-052/17 | Funding 350k CHF |
EPFL Innogrant, High resolution Retinal Imaging PI: C. Moser. I participated as: PhD student – STI/LAPD | Funding 100k CHF |
EPFL’s Technology Transfer Office grant, Retinal phase imaging PI: C. Moser. I participated as: PhD student – enable-610263 | Funding 50k CHF |
5 Scholarships for Excellence in scientific disciplines from Regione Sardegna (6k EUR / year) | Scholaship 30k EUR |
(Converting 1 EUR = 1 CHF) Total = 926K
*I was awarded for this funding, but I preferred to decline the funding as at the same time I was awarded a more prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
C9 – Awards
Awards and programs | Details |
Succeed and Lead Fellow at the University of Limerick | |
Best poster award at the Photonics Day 2014 | >100 participants |
Finalist in the Falling Walls competition between Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows | >100 MC Fellows |
Nominated among the top 3 young researchers in Complexity Science | Worldwide award |
C10 – Interviews
- Interview for Research Fortnight
- Interview for Buongiorno Alghero
- Interview for the Data Skeptic podcast
- Interview for the Outrage Overload podcast (expected to be published in December)
C11 – Articles in the press speaking about my projects
- New York Times
- NewsDeal
- DNYUZ
- Irish Independent (Ireland)
- Open (Italy)
- Today UK News (UK)
- Scimex (Australia/New Zeland)
- Salud Conciencia (Spain)
- Irish medical times
- Meteoweb
- PressNewsAgency
- Diseasez
- Nature asia
- Cleare Herald
- News Medical
- Scienmag
- Eureka Alert
- Mirage News
C12 – Full list of presentations since career change (2020)
- 06 June 2023 – Lecture – BIGSSS Summer School on Democratic Debate – The impact of psychological measurements on models
- 25 May 2023 – Presentation – Digital Twin Workshop – The risk of the measurement approach and some ways to solve it
- 26 May 2023 – Invited talk – Distinguished 4IR webinar series at the University of Johannesburg – Analyzing Attitudes as Complex Networks – Methods and Findings
- 30 May 2023 – Invited talk – methods and research meetings at University of Lausanne – ResIN: A method for analyzing attitude networks and attitude positioning on a latent space
- 9 May 2023 – Presentation – DSI Brown Bag Lunch – Analyzing Attitudes as Complex Networks
- 9 May 2023 – Invited panel discussion on transformations in the sciences and the ethics of reproducible science – Course on Digital Ethics and Politics
- 10 March 2023 – Invited talk – TeDCog group Bristol (Stephan Lewandowsky) – Analyzing attitude networks: Methods and findings
- 23 February 2023 – Invited talk – University of Cyprus – Agent-based modeling
- 17 February 2023 – Workshop – Society for Personality and social psychology – Analyzing attitudes network
- 4 Jan 2023 – Invited talk – CSSSA – A new degree of freedom in opinion dynamics: how scales completely change model’s properties
- 12 December – Invited talk – SPARC, Lancaster University – Analyzing attitude networks: Methods and findings
- 4 November, 2022 – Conference presentation – Philosophical challenges of computational social science – The measurement crisis in the social sciences
- 14 July 2022 – Invited lecture – BIGSSS Summer School – Analyzing attitudes systems with ResIN
- July 2022 – Conference presentation – ISPP, Athens, Greece – The best of two worlds: analyzing attitudes and polarization combining belief network analysis with item-response theory
- July 2022 – Conference presentation – EASP, Mannheim, Germany –When “neutral” is not neutral anymore
- September 2021 – Conference presentation – Social Simulation Conference – Building an Opinion Dynamics Model from Experimental Data
- September 2021 – Conference presentation – Social Simulation Conference – The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models’ predictions
- September 2021 – Conference presentation – European Conference on Social Networks – What is an opinion? The problem of weakly-defined measurements in agent-based modeling
- July 2021 – Conference presentation – International Society of Political Psychology – Differences in the attitude space of European left and right-wing supporters
- August 2021 – Conference presentation – The British psychological society SPS – Can a network-based attitude space inform social identification? Introducing a novel approach to research attitude-identity relationships
C13 – Topic Field-Weighted Citation Impact
Topic Field-Weighted Citation Impact = 1.50 |
Meaning that my works get cited on average 50% more than the average in the same field
C14 – Badge of high attended conference
C15 – Current position
Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich since September 2022
C16 – Teaching and supervision experience
Teaching and supervision experience |
Teaching of course on Agent-based modelling at ETH, Zurich (2023) [851-0101-86L] |
Co-teaching of Theory and models in applied research, ETH, Zurich/ University of Zurich (2023) |
Co-teaching of course on Participatory Resilience at ETH, Zurich (2022) [851-0601-00L] |
Invited lectures at the course Data Science in Techno-Socio-Economic Systems at ETH, Zurich (2023) [851-0585-38L] |
Teaching of courses on complex social systems at ETH, Zurich (2022) [851-0101-86L and 860-0011-00L] |
Invited lectures at the BIGSSS summer schools for computational social science (2022 & 2023) |
Invited lecture in course on Digital Ethics and Politics (2023) [851-0450-00L] |
Attended course on Foundations of Teaching and Learning at ETH, Zurich (2023) |
Teaching in high school (8th to 10th grade) (2019) |
Teaching assistant experience in 6 courses at EPFL, Lausanne (2013-2018) |
Supervision of 2 PhD students at ETH (2022-ongoing) |
Supervision of 3 master students at EPFL, Lausanne (2013-2018) |
Supervision of group of PhD students during BIGSSS summer school (2023) |
Additional teaching/communication-related activities: development of 2 YouTube channels on scientific-related topics. Both have videos with more than 15k views, showcasing ability in explaining complex technical concepts to non-experts.