Mercè Crosas

Mercè Crosas is the Director of Computational Social Sciences and Humanities at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, leading a pioneering initiative to address current and past large-scale, complex questions in human societies using new data types, Artificial Intelligence, and High-Performance Computing. Crosas is also President of CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council, and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)at Harvard University. Crosas holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Rice University and a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona. She completed both predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and later was the Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at Harvard´s IQSS, where she spent most of her professional career.