Biography

Ana is a sociologist working at the intersection of economic sociology, sociology of science, and the study of trust and cooperation. At the EUI, Ana is exploring how social networks affect individual outcomes, thereby sustaining or moderating structural social inequalities. She is also studying how processes of cumulative advantage and gender dynamics lead to inequalities in science. Finally, she works on a project studying how social influence affects group-decision making. To understand these processes, Ana relies on formal models, computer simulations, experimental research, and computational analyses of large empirical datasets.
Ana completed her PhD in Sociology from Utrecht University in 2024. In her PhD project, Ana explored mechanisms that support cooperative relations in contexts where legal assurances are largely absent. She also studied cultural innovation by analysing community-level social norms and shared language emergence. Before joining the EUI, Ana was a postdoctoral researcher at the Radboud University, where she studied gender representation of scientists in traditional and online media. She received a BA in Sociology from the University of Belgrade and an MSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Ana has taught a BA-level advanced sociological theory course and supervised bachelor and master students’ theses. She has also taught workshops on text mining for social scientists.

Mentor

• Juho, Härkönen

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