Stefania Milan works at the intersection of political participation, technology, and governance, with focus on infrastructure and political agency.
She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Florence School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute). She is the PI of the project DATAGOV-Governance by Data Infrastructure in the Post-Pandemic Democracy, funded by the European Research Council. Stefania holds a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she worked at, among others, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, Tilburg University, and the Central European University. In 2015-2021 she was the Principal Investigator of DATACTIVE and of the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project, both funded by the European Research Council. In 2017, she co-founded the Big Data from the South Research Initiative, investigating the impact of datafication and surveillance on communities at the margins. She loves experimenting with participatory, and computational methods. Her research has once been called “undisciplined”. Outside office hours, Stefania can be found on a bicycle, a mountain, or the boxing ring.
