Affiliated researchers and advisors

Mehul is a professor in computer science with expertise in artificial intelligence, cognitive science (specialising on visuospatial cognition), human-computer interaction, and design computing and cognition. Previously, Mehul Bhatt was Professor within the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Stiftungs Professor at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI Bremen).

Jonas  is a researcher and Vice CEO at the Ratio Institute, as well as an assistant professor at Luleå University of Technology and a visiting fellow at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He defended his thesis in 2017. In 2018, he was selected by the Publication “Current Sustainability” as one of the top sustainability professionals under the age of 33 in Sweden. Furthermore, his research interests include issues such as technological change and labor markets, carbon capture, and Chinese wind power. In April 2020, he released a new book on technology and labor markets: "Moderna tider 4.0" at Volante publishing.

Rashmi holds a PhD in AI and is chief AI officer at Analog Devises, USA. She was previously general manager for AI Platforms, Business Development, at Microsoft, USA. She holds six international patents and is very experienced in ML methods, data scientific methods and NLP techniques.

Miloš is an associate professor of transport systems at Aalto University, Finland. His expertise includes development, assessment and governance of emerging mobility technologies, as well as development of expert-based decision-support systems. Miloš is currently finishing his engagement within the EU Commission expert group advising on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility.

Federico is a senior manager and recently also associate professor in computer science (Örebro University). His expertise is in constraint-based reasoning, automated planning/scheduling, robot coordination and motion planning.

Radka is a method statistician at Statistics Sweden and until recently a postdoc at the AI-Econ Lab. Radka has a PhD in mathematical statistics. Her experience includes research at the Open University, UK, dealing with large sparse data. She also worked as a senior data scientist for a major Czech bank and has solid programming skills and experience with analysing large datasets.

Todor is an associate professor in computer science with expertise in perception algorithms, reinforcement learning for manipulation, semantic labelling and classification. He is co-principal-investigator in an on-going WASP/AI collaborative project.

Aili is a senior economist at the Swedish Competition Authority and until recently a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the AI-Econ Lab (Örebro University and Ratio). As a co-investigator in projects, e.g., on technology and trade and their impacts on firms and workers, she has acquired in-depth experience with state-of-the-art micro-econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data.

Cristina is full professor of Public Law at Linnaeus University, Sweden, playing a pivotal role in establishing and developing the new legal research environment and the Law Program at Linnaeus University. She is also a visiting professor of Public Law at the School of Information Technology, Halmstad University, Sweden. In this role, she focuses on the legal implications of artificial intelligence. Cristina has previously served as an appointed member in personal capacity of the EU Commission’s VAT Expert Group in Brussels, Belgium. Between 2021-2023, she was appointed in a personal capacity as a member of the EU Commission’s Expert Group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. In September 2022 she has been appointed again as a member in personal capacity of the EU Commission’s VAT Expert Group.

Joakim works as research director at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. He has a background in engineering physics and holds a PhD in economic geography. His primary research interests are the interactions between technological and economic change, digital entrepreneurship and complex adaptive systems. In 2019, his report on humans, machines and tomorrow's work was released (in Swedish).