RESIDUAResearch Institute

People

Three disciplines, one team.

Residua is led by three founding directors whose skills form a single evidential chain, from the chemistry of material traces, through computational inference, to the study of how knowledge is made and contested.

Directors

Founding directors

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Oscar J. Mayorga

Director of AI & Computational Social Science · Principal Investigator

Oscar leads the Institute's computational and methodological work, building the models that translate high-dimensional, noisy chemical signals into social inference at scale. He is the anticipated Principal Investigator on the Institute's flagship European Research Council application.

Computational social scienceMachine learningResponsible AI

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Daniel Y. Zipp

Director of Sociology, Ethics & Public Engagement

Daniel directs the Institute's social theory, research ethics, and public engagement. His ethnographic work studies how scientific claims are produced, validated, and contested in laboratories and heritage settings, and how findings move responsibly into public life.

Sociology of knowledgeEthnographyResearch ethics

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Gazmend Elezi

Scientific Director, Archaeology & Analytical Chemistry

Gazmend directs the laboratory programme, generating and grounding the chemistry: organic-residue, isotope, and proteomic data from archaeological material. He leads the Institute's mass-spectrometry methods and their integration with social and computational research.

Biomolecular archaeologyMass spectrometryAnalytical chemistry

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Research team

Building the next generation

As the Institute secures funding, it will host a Principal Investigator and research team and recruit doctoral and postdoctoral researchers across its disciplines. Training and mentoring early-career researchers is one of the Institute's core objectives.

Open positions will be listed on our Careers page.

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Join us

We expect to advertise doctoral and postdoctoral positions tied to the flagship programme. Researchers in computational social science, biomolecular archaeology, analytical chemistry, and the sociology of science are encouraged to be in touch.

See what the team is building

The flagship programme Research areas