DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee I (2021-July 2024)

Cambridge University, UK

Anna Korhonen

Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Department of Computer Science and Technology

University College London, UK

Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri

Professor at the Institute for Global Health 

Aalto University, Finland 

Arno Solin

Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science 

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Aurélien Garivier 

Professor at Département de Mathématiques

University of Luxembourg

Luis Leiva

Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science

Uppsala University, Sweden

Matteo Magnani

Professor of Data Science 

DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee II (August 2024 – December 2026)

Cambridge University, UK

Anna Korhonen

Professor at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Department of Computer Science and Technology

University College London, UK

Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri

Professor

LMU Munich, Germany

Barbara Plank

Professor

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Luis Leiva

Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist

University of Seville, Spain

Emilio Carrizosa

Full Professor

Aalto University, Finland 

Arno Solin

Assistant Professor

About the DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee

The DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee evaluates both methodological and applied data science applications aligning with the DDSA research scope. The Committee also provides feedback and input on the evaluation process to the DDSA Board of Directors.

The Committee is comprised of a national chair, 5 national members and 6 international members ensuring that the diverse areas and sub-disciplines of data science are adequately represented. National members are defined as being employed in Denmark. The international members also serve to mitigate any local biases in the assessment of the applications.

Applications for the DDSA PhD and Postdoc Fellowships are invited on a yearly basis via open competition calls. The main evaluation activities for the Committee take place from March to June. Some of the main activities for the members are:

Individual activities:  

• Screening PhD and Postdoc applications to express interest to review or declare conflict of interest
• Individual review of applications (each application is scored by up to four committee members) over a period of approx. 3 weeks

Meetings: 

• Virtual kick-off meeting
• Physical meeting in Denmark spanning 2-3 days, selecting 20 PhD candidates and 12 Postdoc candidates for interviews
• International members only: Virtual meetings spanning 2-3 days interviewing candidates and nominating the final 10 PhD and 6 Postdoc candidates for Fellowship awarding
• Virtual meeting: FEC evaluation meeting

A Committee member can still apply for DDSA grants.

The Committee works in accordance with DDSA Conflicts of Interest.

Honorarium

DDSA Fellowship Evaluation Committee members will receive a fixed yearly honorarium for their commitment to the fellowship evaluation process according to the table below:

There will be an open call for applications for 6 Postdoc and 10 PhD Fellowships in 2025 and an open call for applications for 10 PhD Fellowships in 2026.