Maria Petrova is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), a Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and a Researcher at the Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG).

She is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on Information Economics and Political Economy.

Professor Petrova is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. She is also a Research Fellow of CEPR and Research Affiliate of CESifo.

Petrova serves on the Board of Directors of the Review of Economic Studies.

In the past, she has been a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and was Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society at the New Economic School, Russia (2012-13), where she was also an Assistant/Associate Professor from 2008-2022.