After receiving her PhD from Horizon CDT in 2020, Rosa began working at The Alan Turing Institute as a research associate using machine learning and AI methods to help prevent modern-day slavery, human trafficking and other exploitative crimes.
Rosa subsequently worked at The Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology at the University of Tübingen (Germany), researching how big data and machine learning can be used in the study of education and learning.
In March 2023 Rosa began as tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Psychology and Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen, combining psychological theory and machine learning to investigate how big data can be used to understand human behaviour, with applications in the domain of social good. In Feb 2025, Rosa will start as an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and AI at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Rosa’s research lies at the intersection of social science, data science, and AI. In particular in the development of ethical AI and the use of predictive models to understand human behaviour and societal problems. In her work, Rosa integrates social theories of human behaviour with various data science and machine learning techniques, making contributions to the fields of environmental psychology, educational psychology, sustainable development, and human rights.
