Dr Federico Nanni

Federico is a Senior Research Data Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute, working as part of the Research Engineering Group.

He has a background in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval, with a focus on their applications in various research contexts, from Digital Humanities to Digital Libraries to Computational Social Science. 

Prior to joining the Institute, he completed a PhD at the University of Bologna, focused on the challenges of retrieving primary sources from large-scale web archives. He then worked for five years at the Data and Web Science Group of the University of Mannheim. There, he developed entity-centric information access strategies and NLP methodologies for data-driven political science research, as part of the multidisciplinary research project Political Economy of Reforms. He also spent time as a visiting researcher at the Foundation Bruno Kessler, Aarhus University and the University of New Hampshire.

Since joining the Turing, Federico has worked for four years on Living with Machines, leading from the REG side the NLP research strands of the project. During his time at the Institute, he also worked on the "Time-sensitive sensing of language and user-generated content" project, focusing on methods for understanding changes in behaviour over time, with applications in mental health.