Germain Gauthier

Germain Gauthier serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, with affiliations spanning IGIER and DONDENA research centers. He actively contributes to the AXA Gender Lab, CLEAN Unit, and AI & Society Initiative, and recently completed a visiting research appointment at CESifo (May 6-10, 2024).

His research program bridges machine learning and social science through natural language processing applications. Key investigation areas include:

• Social media's impact on protest mobilization dynamics
• Gender norm evolution through computational text analysis
• Large Language Models' influence on labor market stereotypes
• Development of neural topic models for document corpora with metadata

Methodologically, Gauthier pioneers 'text as data' approaches for political economy, creating tools to extract narratives from large text collections. His recent CESifo Working Paper 8326 \"Social Media and the Dynamics of Protests\" demonstrates how online platforms amplify street protests during movement inception by lowering coordination costs.

As an early-career scholar (PhD 2023, CREST Paris), he maintains international collaborations including ETH Zürich and CESifo affiliations. His research trajectory shows strong integration of computational methods with social science inquiry, particularly in gender studies and political behavior.

Students and collaborators benefit from his involvement in Bocconi's interdisciplinary research ecosystems, especially through the AXA Gender Lab and AI & Society Initiative which provide frameworks for studying technology-society interactions.