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New Affiliated Professors welcomed by BSE directors

This academic year, the BSE welcomed seven new Affiliated Professors with a small gathering at UAB. The meeting was led by Professors Teresa Garcia-Milà (Director of the BSE), Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (Deputy Director for Academic Programs), and Julian di Giovanni (Deputy Director for Research).

Professor Garcia-Milà introduced the BSE to the new faculty members and explained how they can be involved in the community of the School. Professor Ferrer-i-Carbonell talked about the Academic programs, and Professor di Giovanni explained how Affiliated Professors can develop their careers as researchers with the support of the BSE.

BSE Affiliated Professors are all tenured or tenure-track faculty members from one of the BSE’s academic units. The new Affiliated Professors for the academic year of 2017-18 are:

 

Christopher Busch (MOVE-UAB and BSE)

PhD, University of Cologne

Research Interests: Macroeconomics and Labor Economics

 

Jésica de Armas (UPF and BSE)

PhD in Computer Science, Universidad de La Laguna

Research Interests: Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Logistics and Transportation, and Machine Learning

 

Miguel Espinosa (UPF and BSE)

PhD, London School of Economics

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics, Labor Economics and Political Economy.

 

Andre Groeger (UAB and BSE)

PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt

Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Labor Economics

 

Antonio Penta (UPF and BSE)

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Game Theory, Auctions, Mechanism Design and Bounded Rationality

 

Amedeo Piolatto (UAB and BSE)

PhD, Toulouse School of Economics

Research Interests: Political Economy, Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomic Theory

 

Alberto Santini (UPF and BSE)

PhD, University of Bologna

Research Interests: Operations Research