He is a Distinguished University Professor of AI and Society at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in AI, media and democracy. He also holds the Chair of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam. He co-directs the AI, Media and Democracy Lab and the national research program AlgoSoc. He is the founder and first scientific director of the Centre for Digital Democracy at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and a member of the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies.

Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include comparative studies of the impact of digital technologies on electoral campaigns and outcomes, with particular emphasis on developments in the UK, the US, Germany, Australia and France. He is leading a five-year research project, Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy (DiCED), funded by the European Research Council (ERC). He is also the Principal Investigator on the UKRI Smart Data Research (SDR) project DIGISURVOR, which addresses the methodological and ethical challenges of combining individual-level survey data with users’ digital footprints.