References

[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 Science3.8
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, 1-739
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 scholarshipsDetails
Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual Fellowship PI: M. Quayle. I participated as: Fellow – 891347Funding 300k EUR
SobigData++ Transnational Access PI: D. Helbing. I participated as: Visiting Scientist GA 871042Funding 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-052/17Funding 350k CHF
EPFL Innogrant, High resolution Retinal Imaging PI: C. Moser. I participated as: PhD student – STI/LAPDFunding 100k CHF
EPFL’s Technology Transfer Office grant, Retinal phase imaging PI: C. Moser. I participated as: PhD student – enable-610263Funding 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 programsDetails
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 ScienceWorldwide 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

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.