Prof. David Garcia
e-mail: david.garcia@uni.kn
Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science at the University of Konstanz
Also affiliated with CSH Vienna, TU Graz, and ETH Zurich
ResearcherID: A-2113-2014
ORCID: 0000-0002-2820-9151
Scopus: 56817130300
Google Scholar Profile
Research Experience
- Since 2022: Professor for Social and Behavioral Data Science – University of Konstanz
Center for Data and Methods, Department of Politics and Public Administration
Member of the Extended Directorate of the Centre for HUMAN | DATA | SOCIETY
Principal Investigator and Board Member of the Cluster of Excellence Politics of Inequality
Principal Investigator of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior - 2024, 2025: Visiting professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Since 2017: Associate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna
- Since 2018: External faculty (privatdozent) – ETH Zurich
- Since 2023: External faculty (privatdozent) – TU Graz
- 2020 – 2023: Full Professor for Computational Behavioral and Social Sciences
Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering - 2017 – 2022: Group leader – Medical University of Vienna and CSH Vienna
Leading a Vienna Research Group funded by the WWTF - 2015 – 2017: Senior researcher – ETH Zurich
Research on emotions and polarization in participatory media, funded by the Swiss SNF - 2012 – 2014: Postdoctoral researcher – ETH Zurich
Research on digital traces of emotions, privacy, and resilience in social media - 2009 – 2012: Research Assistant – Chair of Systems Design
Research funded by the EU FP7 project Cyberemotions - 2008 – 2009: Research Assistant – Network Visualization
Developer of Cuttlefish a graph visualization project Java - 2008: Master Thesis and Research Assistant – Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Analysis of higher-order structures of equilibrium networks, supervised by Prof. Peter Widmayer - 2006 – 2007: Student Internship, Knowledge Engineering Institute UAM
Development of machine learning systems for fraud detection
Education
- December 2022: Approval of habilitation (umhabilitierung) at TU Graz
- February 2018: Habilitation (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
Awards
- WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators 2016 (1.6 Million Euro)
- Publons Sentinels of Science award for outstanding service, 2016
- 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
- ETH Zurich: Tuition scholarship for international students, 2008
- Comunidad de Madrid: University access (2003) and Excellence Scholarships (2004 and 2005)
Editor Service
- Since 2025: Editor in Chief, EPJ Data Science, since 2025
- 2018-2024: Associate Editor of EPJ Data Science,
- Since 2017: Senior Program Committee member/Associate editor of ICWSM
- Guest editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020) and of PLOS One (2018)
Selected Review Service
- Reviewer for interdisciplinary journals including Nature (2021 – 2023), Science (2016), PNAS (2019 – 2023), Nature Communications (2015), Science Advances (2016), Royal Society Interface (2015)
- Reviewer for computer science journals including Comm. of the ACM (2017), Future Generation Computer Systems (2019), ACM Trans. on the Web (2015), EPJ Data Science (2014 – 2018), Information Sciences (2016), Semantic Web Journal (2016), JMIR (2017 – 2023)
- Member of the program committee of conferences including The Web Conference / WWW, KDD, SocialCom, HyperText, ICWSM, and Web Science
- Reviewer for psychology journals including Nature Human Behavior (2018 –), Social Psychological and Personality Science (2019 –), Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2016)
- Reviewer for political science journals including Electoral Studies (2019), Political Communication (2016), Policy and Internet (2013-2015)
Selected Organization of Scientific Events
- Program Chair of NetSci conference (2023) and of the International Conference of Computational Social Science (2025)
- General Chair of the European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science 2019: Polarization and Radicalization
- Founder and organizer of the ICWSM Science Slam (2015-2019)
- Organizer of the ETH Risk Center Workshop: Mastering the Challenges of our Digital Society, Zurich, Switzerland (2016)
Academic and Research Service
- Since 2022: Member of the GESIS Coordination Group for Digital Behavioral Data
- 2021-2022: Chair of Curriculum Commission at TU Graz. Masters Programme in Computational Social Systems. Appointed by the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering