Health Equity

Claudia Natalia von Vacano, Ph.D.

Founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator

Dr. Claudia Natalia von Vacano is the Founding Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of UC Berkeley’s Social Sciences Data Laboratory (D-Lab), including the Berkeley Federal Statistical Research Data Center. Her work advances interdisciplinary approaches to computational research, data science education, digital humanities, and trustworthy AI.

At D-Lab, Dr. von Vacano leads programs that support computational and data-intensive research through training, consultations, working groups, courses, and cross-campus collaboration....