Cristian Candia awarded ANID-FONDECYT Regular 2026 grant
Cristian Candia was awarded an ANID-FONDECYT Regular 2026 grant for the project “Collective Memory Decay in Science: Patterns and Determinants of Forgetting Retracted Research.”
The project studies why invalidated or retracted research can continue to be cited and influence scientific agendas after formal correction. It combines bibliometrics, citation networks, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, statistical physics, and models of collective memory.
The work consolidates a CRiSS-LAB research line on collective memory, science of science, and knowledge correction in high-volume information environments.
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.