Stefania Milan#
Photo: Kirsten van Santen
| Membership Number: | 6977 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.stefaniamilan.net/about-me/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9314-2889 |
| X: | @annliffey |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-milan/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - 2026 Francqui Chair, Belgian Francqui Foundation, School of Social Sciences Hasselt University
- 2022 - present Professor of Critical Data Studies, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- 2022 - present Research Associate, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute (Italy)
- 2020 - present Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (USA)
- 2017 - 2022 Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- 2017 - 2022 Associate Professor of Media Innovation, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (Norway)
- 2015 - 2017 Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- 2012 - 2014 Assistant Professor of Data Journalism, Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
- 2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Citizen Lab, University of Toronto (Canada)
- 2011 (01/2011 to 07/2011) Visiting Professor of Political Communication, Department of Political Science, Central European University (Hungary/USA)
- 2010 - 2011 (09/2010 to 01/2011) Visiting Scholar, Media@McGill, McGill University (Canada)
- 2008 - 2010 Part-time Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Luzern (Switzerland)
- 2009 - 2010 Project Manager, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Digital sociology
- Critical data studies
- Methodological innovation and computational social science
- Governance of and by digital technology
- Data and research ethics
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Inducted into the KNAW, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, as part of the Humanities and Social Sciences class (as an interdisciplinary scholar)
- 2024 - 2029 'Governance by Data Infrastructure in the Post-Pandemic Democracy' (DATAGOV) - ERC Advanced Grant (no. 101142006)
- 2018 - 2020 'Algorithms Exposed: Investigating Automated Personalization and Filtering for Research and Activism (ALEX)' - ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2018 (no. 825974)
- 2015 - 2021 'Data Activism: The Politics of Big Data According to Civil Society (DATACTIVE)' - European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2014 (no. 639379)
- 2008 - 2009 Excellent Teaching Award (Hervorragende Lehre), University of Lucerne, Switzerland, course ‘Governance and Democratization of Global Media’
- 2004 Excellent Young Researcher in Communication Award, UNESCO/International Association of Media and Communication Research
