Detailed Work History

There might be some naming convention differences between my official CV and this section. That is just a stylistic choice.

Personal Information

• Name: Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes
• Nationality: Chilean and Dutch
• E-mail: [email protected]
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4077-1024
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8oH7CMsAAAAJ

Topics of Expertise

Programming · Interdisciplinary research · Information retrieval · Open Science · Computational social science · Academic literature analysis · Bibliometric analysis · Networks analysis · Data visualization · Machine learning · Natural language processing · Data storytelling · User interface · User experience · Relational databases · Genetics · Biomolecular dynamics

Programming Languages

• Advanced: Python, SPARQL, LaTeX, SQL, XML, BASH
• Basic: Java, R, HTML, JavaScript

Natural Languages

• Spanish: Native
• English: Expert
• Dutch: B1

Education

PhD in Scientometrics

Leiden University, The Netherlands — 2018–2025 (to be defended 21 January 2026)

• Dissertation: Science maps for information retrieval
• Supervisors: Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Suzan Verberne

BSc/MSc in Biochemistry, Cum laude

Andrés Bello National University, Chile — 2008–2016

• Dissertation: Identification of enzyme superfamilies significantly mutated in cancer and characterization of their analogous mutations
• Supervisor: Daniel Eduardo Almonacid

Work Experience

Senior Data Analyst

Elsevier — July 2026–present

Data Scientist — Multiversatory

Leiden University — 2025–June 2026

Project: Multiversatory

Supporting the emerging Multiversatory project at CWTS by exploring alternative perspectives in research evaluation, including:

• Developing metrics for the workforce of universities
• Monitoring the FAIRification of open science databases in Google BigQuery
• Exploring metadata structures and schema interoperability for open datasets

Social Media Analyst — UnMiSSeD

Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Leiden University — 2024–2025

Project: European Media and Information Fund — Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates (UnMiSSeD)

Creating project deliverables using a dataset of tweets, including:

• An online dashboard to explore the data
• A paper summarizing the most important patterns of the dataset

Social Media Analyst — Scientific Communication

Delft University of Technology and Leiden University — 2021

Project: TU Delft COVID-19 Response Fund — Scientific Communication in Times of Corona Virus

Supporting research tasks, including:

• Comparing clusters in citation networks with clusters in co-Tweetation networks of academic documents
• Sentiment analysis of Twitter users sharing academic documents

Scientometric Analyst — CWTS B.V.

CWTS B.V., Leiden University — 2019–2021

Supporting consultancy requests and the following projects:

• U-Multirank
• RISIS
• SCISTIP

Machine Learning Researcher — WriteWise

WriteWise — 2017–2018

Innovating and implementing functionalities for academic writing assistance software, including:

• Training machine learning classifiers of impactful academic documents
• Extracting NLP features from the classifiers

Biological Networks Researcher — Fondecyt

Andrés Bello National University — 2013–2016

Project: Fondecyt no. 11130578 — Assessing the Molecular and Biological Impact of Cancer Mutations in Enzyme Superfamilies Using Protein and Chemical Similarity Networks

Functional predictions of genes inferred from genetic similarity networks, including:

• Implementing the inference methodology on the networks
• Finding cases of biological significance

Teaching

Teacher Assistant — Data Science

Leiden University — 2021–2026 | Master students

Courses: Information retrieval · Text Mining · Data science · Essentials of machine learning · Artificial intelligence for business · Urban computing · Algorithms and Data structures

Workshop Lecturer — Python

Leiden University — 2020 | Beginners

Courses: Python for social scientists

Private Tutor

Santiago, Chile — 2008–2016 | High school and bachelor students

Courses: Math · Chemistry · Biology

Academic Service

Conference Workshop Organizer — NetSci

Maastricht University — 2025

Conference: International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2025) Workshop: Networks in Science of Science

Evaluating the workshop program and assisting on events.

Blog Editor — Leiden Madtrics

Leiden University — 2019–2021

Leiden Madtrics — reviewing and approving blog submissions.

Peer Reviews

Conferences