Bastián is a post-doctoral researcher in Computational Social Science and a lecturer in Governance and Development at Leiden University. He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Politics from Oxford University, and prior to that, he completed an MA in Political Science and a BA in Government at the Universidad de Chile.
He is also a lecturer in the School of Public Administration at the Universidad Diego Portales and serves as a research associate at the Training Data Lab.
Diego serves as an adjunct researcher at the Training Data Lab. He holds an MA in Political Science from the Universidad de Chile, an MA in Global Politics from McMaster University in Canada, and a BA in Legal and Social Sciences from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile.
He is also a policy researcher at Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), part of the Canadian Federal Government.
The Observatory of Executive Power (OBPEX) welcomes applications from motivated students interested in researching executive power in diverse political contexts
This call in Spanish is open until 14 March 2025
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Enlace-Inserción UDP 2025 “Unpacking the Unpredictable: Using NLP and LLMs to Examine Cabinet Politics and Responses to Stochastic Events in Presidential Democracies”
