Matías Deneken
Matías
Deneken
Introduction
Matías Deneken is a Chilean sociologist and data scientist whose work sits at the intersection of the sociology of violence, democracy, and computational social science. His research examines how social processes unfold in contemporary societies through the rigorous application of quantitative and computational methods.
Milestones
His graduate studies have been fully funded by Chile's National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) — the national equivalent of UKRI or the U.S. NSF — through its International Doctoral Scholarship (2026–2030), ranked first in the Artificial Intelligence area, and its National Master's Scholarship (2022–2024). He also received a Fulbright Equal Opportunity Scholarship (declined) and the University of Concepción Award for academic excellence in Sociology (2022).
Consultancy project
Matías founded MethodoLab — a data science initiative that pushes the frontier of computational methods in social research through consultancy, pipelines, and applied analytics for academic and public-sector projects.
Now
He will begin his PhD in Computational Social Science (incoming) at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics .
Home
I was born and raised in the working-class commune of Puente Alto. A bit of its history can be found here.
