Simon Chauchard is a social scientist at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas de Madrid, specializing in political behavior, misinformation, and identity with a regional focus on India and Brazil. He leads the ERC-funded POLARCHATS project and has academic credentials from Dartmouth, SIPA, and Leiden. Chauchard actively mentors emerging scholars in computational social science.

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