Professor Jose Manuel Magallanes is a Senior Data Scientist at the eScience Institute. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, and has been a Visiting Professor of Computational Public Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance from Mid 2015 until 2023. Professor Magallanes appointment is funded by the University of Washington’s eScience Institute thanks to the Washington Research Fund,  the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where he is  a Senior Data Science Fellow.

Professor Magallanes is a Full Professor at the Departement of Social Sciences – Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP). He is also a part-time Professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), and a Lecturer at the The Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) program in the School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst. He has been a visiting scholar at Duke, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), and UniAndes (Colombia).

Professor Magallanes has two Doctoral degrees. One in Computational Social Science from George Mason University, and another one in Psychology from UNMSM. He also holds a Master degree in Political Science and Public Management  from PUCP. He has received multidisciplinary training on computational approaches on governance matters from University Michigan (ICPSR), National University of Australia, National University of Singapore (ISS), University of Chicago (Argonne NL), Carnegie Mellon University (CASOS), and Harvard Kennedy School.