Benjamin Freixas Emery is a first-year PhD student in the Information Science Department at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder. His research, advised by Brian Keegan, surrounds the flow of conspiratorial misinformation, the strategies used to spread such misinformationÌýand the prediction of action based on it.Ìý
Before beginning his degree at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, Ben completed bachelors’ degrees in physics and statistics as well as an MS in Complex Systems at the University of Vermont. He also spent four years as a multidisciplinary research scientist at Sandia National Labs.