Edemilson Parana

Edemilson Paraná is an Associate Professor in Sociology at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and an Associate Professor at LUT University, Finland, where he also holds the title of Docent in the Political Economy of AI and Digital Technologies. His research lies at the intersection of political economy, economic sociology, and social theory, with a focus on digital finance, artificial intelligence, and emerging neurotechnologies.

He is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project From Human Capital to Intelligence Management: Data-driven Economy and Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Research Council of Finland (RCF) Academy Research Fellowship project Between Brains and Computers: The Social (Re)construction of ‘Intelligence’ in the Digital Economy.

He is also a Geary Fellow at the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, a member of the UCD Centre for Digital Policy, and an International Fellow at the University of Groningen’s Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development.

His work has been published in journals including Big Data & Society, New Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Third World Quarterly, Globalizations, and Platforms & Society. He also serves in editorial and advisory roles with Historical Materialism, The Yearbook on Data Autonomy, and Global Political Economy.

His full CV, academic publications, and public writing are available here.