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ODISSEI is seeking to fill two positions on its Management Board: a Scientific Member and the Chair. The Management Board is responsible for the strategic direction, scientific development, and oversight of ODISSEI. Working closely with the Coordination Team and the Supervisory Board, the Board ensures ODISSEI continues to serve the Dutch social science community and…

Maike Weiper is one of the current ODISSEI SoDa Fellows. A PhD candidate at the Sociology Department of Utrecht University, her background is in psychology – but after hearing how population datasets were used to reckon with the COVID-19 pandemic, she pursued a Master’s in Applied Data Science and eventually her PhD. Her project is…

ODISSEI is pleased to announce the second edition of the Open Science Award, celebrating outstanding contributions that promote transparency, reproducibility, and reusability in computational social science research.

ODISSEI welcomes proposals for its 2026 Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands,  a special edition marking 10 years of building research infrastructure for the social sciences.

Results for the LISS Panel Grant and for MAG 2025-2 are now available, and we would like to warmly congratulate all thirteen recipients on their achievement.

The Macroscope will allow researchers to securely link and analyse massive datasets spanning social, cultural, and digital domains across the entire Dutch population.

ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 4 November 2025 in Utrecht. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, methods, infrastructure, policy application, ethics and theoretical work related to digital and computational approaches in social science research.  

ODISSEI is pleased to announce the Open Science Award 2025, celebrating outstanding contributions that promote transparency, reproducibility, and reusability in computational social science research. The award will recognise an individual or team who has gone above and beyond in making their research outputs—such as data, code, or tools—open, FAIR, and impactful.