Florian Raphael Cafiero

PSL University

Based in

France
Europe

Dr. Florian Cafiero is a Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL) and a researcher at Centre Jean-Mabillon – Ecole nationale des chartes. He gives lectures at École nationale des chartes – PSL, Ecole Normale Supérieure – PSL, and Dauphine-PSL, and his research focuses on computational social science and digital humanities.

Since 2019, Cafiero is a member of the “Critical thinking” group of France’s Ministry of National Education Scientific Council. Dr. Cafiero has also been a principal investigator for a project on the online presence of cults held by the Interministerial Mission of Vigilance and Combat against Sectarian Drifts (MIVILUDES). After a stay as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2022, Cafiero has been part in 2023 of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) run by the U.S. Department of State.

All of Dr. Cafiero’s scientific publications and resume are available on the CNRS open archive HAL. The code for most of his projects is posted on Github.
With his colleague Jean-Baptiste Camps, they recently published a book regarding authorship attribution and forensic linguistics, Affaires de style (Le Robert). This follows their work regarding Molière authorship dispute, or their study on QAnon for the New York Times.