Zoé Christoff

Zoé Christoff is an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen's Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She leads research on collective intelligence as a member of the Multi-Agent Systems Group and holds a prestigious NWO VENI grant for her project 'Democracy on Social Networks'.

Her research focuses on how groups of agents form opinions and make collective decisions, using formal tools from logic, artificial intelligence, and social network theory. Key interests include modeling information distortion in social networks, studying collective illusions through graph colorings, and applying logical frameworks to social influence dynamics. Her work bridges theoretical computer science with practical social phenomena.

• Investigates how social networks create collective illusions where local majority opinions differ from global population views
• Develops logical systems capturing similarity-based processes like social influence and link changes
• Studies opinion diffusion dynamics and network structure constraints

Dr. Christoff has received significant recognition including the Rosalind Franklin Fellowship and NWO VENI grant. Her research has been featured in publications covering epistemic logic, liquid democracy, opinion stabilization, and pluralistic ignorance phenomena.

She has advised on research projects related to information flow in networks and has collaborated with leading scholars including Olivier Roy and Davide Grossi. Her work connects formal logical frameworks with real-world social dynamics, particularly in digital network environments.