R. Maria del Rio-Chanona

Biography

Maria is a Lecturer at University College London in the Computer Science department. Her research draws from network science, large language models, as well as agent-based modeling and focuses on the net-zero transition and the impact of new technologies in the labour market.

Maria completed her PhD in mathematics at the University of Oxford, where she was part of the complexity economics group of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School. She was a JSMF research fellow at the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School. Maria has worked alongside international policy organisations, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the International Labour Organization.