Rosa Vicari
Research Scholar
Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Rosa Vicari is a research scholar in the Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. Her scientific interests mainly concern digital media, social media, e-government, evaluating the impact of science outreach on urban resilience, urban resilience metrics, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to detect misinformation, advanced text mining, and network representation.She holds a PhD in environmental sciences and technologies from the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in France and is the author of scientific publications on the role of digital media in climate change resilience strategies.
She has been in charge of communications at Leonard, the VINCI Group's foresight and innovation platform, and at the lab recherche environnement VINCI ParisTech at VINCI’s Environment Department since 2019. She has been promoting dialogue and fostering new synergies around environmental and scientific issues for the past 12 years. From 2012 to 2018, she worked as part of the scientific program of the Veolia Chair, Hydrology for a Resilient City, and on regional and European research projects such as Interreg RainGain. Previously, she was a consultant for sustainable development projects.
Last update: 07 FEB 2024
Publications
Vicari, R., Elroy, O. , Komendantova, N. , & Yosipof, A. (2024). Persistence of Rumours and Hate Speech Over the Years: the Manchester Arena Bombing. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19300. In: EGU General Assembly 2024, 14-19 April 2024, Vienna.
Vicari, R. & Komendantova, N. (2023). Systematic meta-analysis of research on AI tools to deal with misinformation on social media during natural and anthropogenic hazards and disasters. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10 (1) 10.1057/s41599-023-01838-0.
Vicari, R. & Komendantova, N. (2023). Systematic meta-analysis of research on AI tools to deal with misinformation on social media during natural and anthropogenic hazards and disasters. In: Herrenhausen Conference "Climate Related Systemic Risks: Lessons Learned from Covid-19", 21-23 June 2023, Hannover, Germany.
Komendantova, N. , Erokhin, D., Rovenskaya, E. , Dallo, I., Fallou, L., Rapaport, C., Vicari, R., & Yosipof, A. (2023). Contribution to the Global Digital Compact: “Digital commons as a global public good. Internet as a free space, and methods for
combating the spread of disinformation and misinformation.”. IIASA Report. Laxenburg: IIASA