Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. His work bridges economics and data science to analyze education-related behavior and policies.

• Research Focus: School choice, digital technology in education, predictive analytics for interventions, and social network effects.
• Methodology: Combines econometrics with machine learning techniques to evaluate policy impacts.

Research Trends: Recent publications emphasize algorithmic fairness in college admissions, socioeconomic impacts of school boundary policies, and behavioral insights from large-scale datasets. His 2025 Scientific Reports study reveals nation-scale social network dynamics.

Awards and Grants:

• Tietgen Prize (2021) for young social science researchers
• 2024: Independent Research Fund Denmark grant for 'Coded Clues' project
• 2023: Major grant for school choice research

Collaborations: Works with Danish Ministry of Children and Education through UDDanKvant unit, and collaborates with multidisciplinary researchers including Sune Lehmann and David Dreyer Lassen.