Tuba Bircan is a research professor of sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she is the director of the Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (BRISPO) and leading the AIMS Lab on AI, Migration and Society. An interdisciplinary computational social scientist, her research spans migration, social inequalities, and public policy, with a strong focus on ethically and socially responsible use of Big Data and AI for socio-political challenges. She led the H2020 HumMingBird project on innovative migration measurement and currently co-leads the CLIMB project on climate-induced mobility, in addition to several national initiatives. A committed advocate of open and societally engaged science, she is the Lead Editor of "Data Technologies & Analytics for Governance” Area at Data& Policy Journal while also serving on the editorial boards of Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, PLOS ONE, and Frontiers in Human Dynamics, and on the ethics board of the AI Excellence Centre of the Flemish Employment Agency. Her publications centre on methodological advances in migration research, data-driven social science, and inclusive policy design.