David Garcia

David Garcia is Professor (W3) for Social and Behavioral Data Science in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, a position held since 2022, and a Faculty Member at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna since 2017. Garcia received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2007, an MSc in computer science from ETH Zurich in 2009, and a PhD from the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH Zurich in 2012, where Garcia has also served as an external lecturer since 2018. Before moving to Konstanz, Garcia held a full professorship in computational behavioral social sciences at Graz University of Technology from 2020 to 2023. Garcia's research spans computational social science, agent-based modelling, and responsible AI, with recent work examining how large language model agents coordinate social behavior, how algorithmic mechanisms shape political discourse online, and the measurement of psychological constructs in large-scale text data.