Cristian Candia joined the Santa Fe Institute Complexity Global School as invited faculty

Cristian Candia
Last updated on Jun 1, 2026 1 min read
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Cristian Candia participated as invited faculty in the Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies 2025, organized by the Santa Fe Institute and Universidad de los Andes.

The program took place in Bogotá from July 28 to August 8, 2025, and brought together 60 participants from academia, the public sector, the private sector, and civil society. Cristian presented CRiSS-LAB work on political ideology mapping, Lixandria, Discolab, and Capybara, connecting complex systems research with public-interest platforms and applied data science.

This activity is now listed as a News & Media item rather than a teaching course, because it was an invited international academic activity rather than a regular CRiSS-LAB or UDD course.

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Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Head of CRiSS-LAB.

Cristian Candia studies how societies transform information into collective relevance through attention, memory, preferences, and coordination. His work combines computational social science, network science, AI, and large-scale behavioral data to understand how groups, institutions, and societies decide what matters.