Iza Romanowska is a computational archaeologist working on the interface between complexity science and social sciences. She specializes in agent-based modelling, a simulation approach used to understand the social dynamics of ancient and modern communities. Previously she was a Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, and a Senior Researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center where she led the Social Science Simulation and the Digital Humanities Research Group. 
Iza's research spans a wide spectrum of research areas including social sciences, evolutionary theory, and quantitative methods, encompassing spatial (GIS), numeric (statistics), relational (NT), and text data. Central to her research pursuits are frameworks like Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Theory, Complexity Economics, Urban Studies, and Resilience Theory, which she applies to diverse case studies including models of inter-regional trade interactions, customer preference, and pedestrian dynamics. Moreover, her research has provided insights into varying scales of migration dynamics—macro, meso, and micro—as well as studies related to demography, environmental sustainability, and cultural evolutionary systems.

Iza will be joining the Centre for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University, continuing her work on complex systems simulation along previous and new lines of research, building upon the existing capacity for computational and quantitative approaches at the CHC and further solidifying her commitment to advancing computational methodologies within humanities research.