Marco Bastos is the University College Dublin Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies and Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication & Creativity of City, St George’s, University of London. His research leverages computational methods, network science, and large language model data to explore the intersection of communication and computational social science. Dr. Bastos is the lead investigator in the Twitter-funded project investigating echo chambers and political polarization in the aftermath of the Brexit vote and the author of Social Media: Social Networks Online and Offline (Routledge, 2021) and Brexit, Tweeted (BUP, 2024).