Daniela Perrotta is research scientist at the Lab. of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany. Her research focuses on harnessing innovative data-collection schemes and computational methods to study human mobility, population migration and the spread of infectious diseases. Daniela completed her PhD at the University of Turin with a fellowship at the Lab. of Digital and Computational Epidemiology at the ISI Foundation in Italy.