Florian Cafiero

Associate professor

Florian Cafiero holds a PhD from Sciences Po Paris, is an alumnus of École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, and graduated from École nationale des chartes – PSL. He co-leads PSL CultureLab, a major research initiative devoted to computational approaches to culture. His research applies computational methods to the analysis of style, with applications ranging from literature and disinformation to forensic linguistics and international negotiations. His work has been published in journals such as *Science Advances*, *Social Networks*, *Journal of Computational Science*, *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities*, and *Social Science & Medicine*. He is an affiliated researcher at the Center for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism in Geneva, and a member of the Climate Change Social Science Network at Brown University. With Jean-Baptiste Camps, he co-authored *Affaires de style*, a book on stylometry published by Le Robert. He also contributed stylometric analyses to two *New York Times* investigations: one by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Kirkpatrick on QAnon, and another by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou on Bitcoin and the possible identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.