Carlo Santagiustina is qualified as Maître de conférences in Economics and serves as an INRIA Faculty member and Associate Professor within a joint research initiative between the Centre INRIA de Paris and Sciences Po médialab.

He obtained his PhD in Economics from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice  in 2018, with a thesis on social media discussions about collective uncertainties, focusing on their impact on political uncertainty and  financial markets.

From 2022 to 2024, he was Assistant Professor (RTD-A) of Research Methods at the Venice School of Management, where he also coordinated the research efforts of AquaGranda,  a Digital Community Memory project that was awarded an Honorable  Mention at the European Union Prize for Citizen Science in 2023, at  ArsElectronica.

He  has collaborated with several Computational Social Science and  Artificial Intelligence laboratories and international research teams,  including scholars from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Pompeu Fabra  University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Bremen, MPI  Leipzig, Sony CSL and University of Amsterdam.

Since 2018, in collaboration with these teams, he has co-authored and  contributed to numerous Horizon Europe, NGEU and FET projects on social  media and democracy (ODYCCEUS, ISEED and SoMe4Dem), AI for understanding society and mapping social controversies (MUHAI), and sociotechnical innovation (Venywhere X CISCO).

From June 2024 to September 2025, he worked on the Horizon Europe project SoMe4Dem, developing, together with Pedro Ramaciotti and Jean-Philippe Cointet, new methods and models to analyze  identity expression and mobilization on Social Media, and to study how online debates influence real-world socio-economic and political  outcomes; particularly in relation to petition platforms and  crowdfunding campaigns.

In July 2025, Carlo won the first INRIA Starting Faculty Position (IFSP) concours in the social sciences and humanities (SHS), and, in October 2025, he joined INRIA Paris and ALMAnaCH’s SALM (Socially-Aware Language Models) interdisciplinary exploratory research initiative, jointly led by Sciences Po médialab and INRIA Paris.

His research program, titled DemOCrITus (Democratic Discourse and Opinionated Concerns mediated by Identities and Technologies), focuses on the intersection of Computational Social Sciences,  Artificial Intelligence, and Behavioral Studies. It aims to study digitally coupled political and market systems.

In  the long term, his main objective is to support the creation and growth of a new joint research unit between INRIA Paris and Sciences Po  médialab.

His works have appeared in international journals such as the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Economics Letters, Finance Research  Letters, ArtNodes, and PloS ONE.

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