Andreas Kaltenbrunner is affiliate Researcher at ISI and the Research Director of the AI and Data for Society (AID4So) research group at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Before he was a Senior Research Scientist at the ISI Foundation in Turin.
He uses methods from Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems to tackle sociological research questions.
He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communication obtained in 2008 from the UPF in Barcelona. Afterwards, he worked at the technology centre Barcelona Media where he co-founded the Social Media research line and led it from May 2013 onwards. Between June 2015 and August 2017, he was the Scientific Director of the Digital Humanities Research Unit at the technology centre Eurecat. In September 2017 he joined NTENT as Director of Data Analytics, until moving to ISI Foundation in October 2020 and to the UOC in May 2023.