team

Postdoc

Marco Colnaghi

I am Postdoctoral Researcher at the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab (AML), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working on the evolution of human cooperation. The main aim of my research is to use agent-based modelling and evolutionary game theory to study the relationship between fitness interdependence and the evolution of cooperative behaviour. Main supervisor: Daniel Balliet.

Marta C. Couto

Hello! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Prosocial Dynamics Lab, at the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems group (SIAS). I work on mathematical models based on evolutionary concepts and game theory to understand social behaviour, such as how individuals learn to cooperate. In my postdoc I work on the “Algorithmic Fairness and Accuracy in Adaptive Populations” project in collaboration with ING. We explore the population dynamics of strategic individuals adapting to classification algorithms. I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

PhD

Alexandre S. Pires

Hey! I'm Alexandre Pires, a Ph.D. student at the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) Group, University of Amsterdam. My work focuses on understanding indirect reciprocity as a mechanism for cooperation under Human-AI hybrid populations.

Dimitris Michailidis

I am a PhD student at the Civic AI Lab of the University of Amsterdam. In my research, I use Machine Learning to design inclusive, accessible and sustainable cities. My current focus is on using Reinforcement Learning to explore the trade-off between utility and equity/fairness when designing public transport networks. In the near future, I would like to investigate how would urban populations adapt to such changes in a city's public tranport networks.

Elif Ece Erdem

Hello! I'm Ece, a Ph.D. student at Prosocial Dynamics Lab (SIAS Group), University of Amsterdam. I am part of the RE-LINK project, where I focus on developing new link-recommendation algorithms.

Gabriella D. Franco

Oi! I'm Gabi, a Ph.D. student at Prosocial Dynamics Lab (SIAS Group), University of Amsterdam. I am part of the RE-LINK project, where I focus on understanding the impact of link-recommendation algorithms on radicalization and polarization dynamics.

João Fonseca

Hi! I am a PhD student at the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group at the University of Amsterdam. My research focuses on the effects of algorithmic recommendations on social media virality. Feel free to reach out if you’re curious!

Madhura Pawar

I'm Madhura, a Ph.D. student at Prosocial Dynamics Lab (SIAS Group), University of Amsterdam. I am part of the RE-LINK project, where I focus on understanding the impact of link-recommendation algorithms on cooperation and collective action!

Martin Smit

Hi. I'm a PhD student at SIAS working on the theory and applications of the dynamics of cooperation and fairness in reputation-guided systems such as digital service economy platforms.

Roman Chiva Gil

Hello! I am Roman, PhD student at SIAS / Prosocial Dynamics Lab. I investigate how to leverage Indirect Reciprocity to sustain cooperation in (decentralized) multi-agent reinforcement learning environments, especially when agents play mixed-motive games.

Alumni

Ramona Merhej

Ramona defended her PhD thesis titled "Multi-agent reinforcement learning under wealth inequality and diversity in risk" in June 2023. She was a PhD student at Instituto Superior Técnico and INESC-ID, co-supervised by Francisco C. Santos, Francisco Melo and Fernando P. Santos. Currently, Ramona is a Research Scientists at DeepMind.