Gabriela Juncosa has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Collective Minds at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria since January 2025, working on Collective Adaptation as part of the ERC-funded “CollAdapt” project.
Gabriela’s research focuses on sociocultural phenomena in digital society, examining how online and offline interactions shape beliefs and influence civic and political behavior. A central question driving her work is how individuals, when confronted with diverse information that challenges their existing views, decide whether, when, and how to integrate new perspectives. Her research also investigates the role of social context in this adaptive process. To address these questions, Gabriela employs a combination of empirical and experimental methods.
Before joining the Complexity Science Hub, Gabriela pursued a PhD in Network Science from Central European University. Her doctoral research focused on the dynamics of online political deliberation, exploring how individuals navigate the tension between defending strongly held beliefs and conforming to social pressures. Prior to her doctoral studies, Gabriela conducted research on data mining tools for analyzing political discourse, aiming to efficiently process large-scale data to better understand how spoken content shapes public opinion and spreads through social media.