Eva Vriens is a postdoctoral fellow at CNR-ISTC and a member of the LABSS.

She did a PhD in Sociology (2016-2020) at Utrecht University and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) in the Netherlands. Her research revolves around long-term cooperation, collective action, and trust relations, with a particular interest in cooperation under individual and collective risk and the emergence and evolution of social norms. She has experience with a wide variety of theoretical and methodological tools, such as formal analytical models, agent-based simulations, lab and online experiments, survey research, and network analysis.