Dana Diminescu is a sociologist, researcher and professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, École des Telecom, I3-CNRS. She is the coordinator of DiasporasLab research program.

Known for her epistemological manifesto dedicated to the "connected migrant," she has developed a series of innovative quali-quanti methods which have made it possible to analyze how ICTs are used by migrants in a variety of usage situations (transnational and local). In particular, she coordinated and designed with Mathieu Jacomy the e-Diaspora Atlas (a cartography of the web of diasporas), which received a 2012 Digital Humanities Award. She is founder of the JokaJobs smartphone application for Y generation jobseekers.  In 2023, her artistic creations, the manifesto and the e-Diasporas atlas have become part of the permanent collection of the Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration at the Porte Dorée in Paris.

Luca Rossi will host a Q&A session with Dana Diminescu and Mathieu Jacomy about making network tools for migration studies.

Luca Rossi is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He coordinated the Human-Centred Data Science groups and has developed research to use computational methods and network analysis to study a wide range of social phenomena from disinformation, political participation, protests movements and human migration. In the context of migration studies he was part of the inter-disciplinary project “DIGINAUTS: Migrants’ digital practices in/of the European border regime”.