As of August 2020, Ernesto de León works as a PhD student at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Ernesto completed his bachelor’s in International Relations at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Querétaro, Mexico, before obtaining his research master’s degree in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, where he specialized in political science and communication. Currently, Ernesto’s research focusses on the interconnection of social network sites, news consumption behaviour, and political attitudes, with an emphasis on computational methodology for the social sciences.
