Sandra González-Bailón

Sandra González-Bailón is the Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. She is also Co-Director of the Center for Information Networks and Democracy (CIND) and has a secondary appointment as Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Penn. Her research has been published in journals like Science, Nature, PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Human Behavior, Political Communication, and Social Networks, among others. She is the author of El Vuelco: Historia personal y política de cómo las redes han cambiado el mundo para siempre (with El País tech journalist Jordi Pérez Colomé, Deusto-Planeta 2026) and Decoding the Social World: Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication (MIT Press, 2017). She is also the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication (with Brooke Foucault Welles, OUP 2020).