Ben Rosche
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy and of Computational Social Science
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: Princeton University (Postdoc), Cornell University (PhD), Utrecht University (MSc), Mannheim University (BA)
Research Areas: Computational Social Science; Quantitative Methods; Stratification/Inequality; Social Networks; Family Demography; Educational Sociology; Political Sociology
Ben Rosche joined NYU Abu Dhabi in 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science in the Social Research and Public Policy program. Prior to NYUAD, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research. He holds a PhD in Sociology with a minor in Computer Science from Cornell University, two MSc degrees in Methods & Statistics and Sociology & Social Research from Utrecht University, and a BA in Sociology with a minor in Economics from Mannheim University.
His interdisciplinary background spans sociology, economics, statistics, and computer science, with a strong foundation in quantitative and computational methods. His research focuses on social inequality, social networks, family demography, and political sociology. His work has been published in the Annual Review of Sociology, received invitations to revise and resubmit at the American Sociological Review and Political Analysis, and secured a three-year, $240,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Rosche develops and applies statistical and computational tools to study how friendship, family, political, and climate dynamics shape individual life chances and aggregate patterns of inequality. Methodologically, his expertise includes causal inference, relational dynamics, multilevel analysis, and modeling group heterogeneity.