Benjamin Emery

Benjamin Freixas Emeryis a computational social scientist, studying narrative propagation from complex systems perspective by applying techniques from network science, natural language processing, and math and statistics more broadly. His present research focuses on characterizing the ecosystem of misinformation, extremism, and moral panic from fringe message boards to mainstream news.

He completed a B.S. in Physics, B.S. in Statistics, and M.S. in Complex Systems at the University of Vermont. Then he spent four years as a research scientist in the Applied Information Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, researching electrical grid resilience, Bayesian inversion for climate models, and agent-based models of misinformation adoption.