Supervision

Supervision Opportunities for Master’s Students

I welcome motivated students interested in cutting-edge research topics in political communication, computational social sciences, and digital democracy. I am particularly open to supervising work on the following topics:

• Designing media literacy tips to prevent misinformation acceptance.
• Mechanisms of microtargeting in political ads on social media platforms.
• Using Generative Pre-Trained Large Language Models (LLMs/LMMs) as generalizable experimental treatments.
• The restructuring of political conflicts in the digital age.
• Latent variable modeling for reducing measurement bias in multidimensional concepts.

To apply for supervision, please send the following materials to: andrea.deangelis@unimi.it.

1. Personal CV
2. Short paragraph (≈150 words) describing your knowledge and past experience with statistics and quantitative research methods (attendance of the course “Multivariate Analysis for Social Scientists” is recommended).
3. Career plan (≈250-300 words) outlining your goals for the next 3-5 years and the key drivers of your intrinsic motivation (What are you passionate about? Which questions do you find particularly intriguing?).
4. Research plan (one page) including:
   • Research question
   • Key argument
   • 3-5 key scientific papers your proposal engages with
   • Data you intend to use
   • A sketch of the analysis.