Fariba Karimi

Fariba Karimi is a Full Professor of Social Data Science at the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at Graz University of Technology. She develops mathematical and computational models to study inequalities and fairness in socio-technical networks. She is a recipient of an ERC grant in 2024 on the topic of Network Fairness. She received her doctorate in physics from the University of Umea in 2015. She then spent four years conducting research at the -Computational Social Science Department at Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany. Since March 2021, she has been the group lead of the “Network Inequality” group at Complexity Science Hub Institute in Vienna. Before joining TU Graz, she was a Tenure Track Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2023, she received the prestigious Young Scientist Award from the German Physical Society for her contribution to modelling minorities and inequalities in networks.