Previously to becoming ICREA Research Professor I had been Research Associate at Lancaster and Oxford University, Assistant Professor at Warwick University, and Professor at UPF. I am currently the director of the Masters in Data Science and the Data Science Center at Barcelona GSE. I have extensively published in the top journals in Statistics, have served as Associate Editor for several journals and as of January 2018 as Deputy Editor for Biometrika. I have delivered more than 100 invited talks & seminars, and given courses at ENSAE in Paris, the Berlin Mathematical School, the Department of Mathematics at University of Copenhagen, the Engineering Department at Osaka University, CEMFI. In 2010 I was awarded the Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Medal in Bronze, which is arguably the highest distinction in Statistics in Europe. 

Maria Petrova received PhD from Harvard University in 2008. She spent 2012 – 2013 as a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. In 2012-2013, she was Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society at the New Economic School, Russia. Her research interests include political economy, mass media economics, and Internet Economics. Maria has published in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Science Review, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among others. Since 2016, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. Since 2019, she is the recipient of ERC Starting Grant.

Massimo Motta (BSc Bocconi, Milan, 1987; PhD Louvain, 1991) is Research Professor at ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Barcelona GSE. He was Chief Economist at the European Commission in 2013-2016, where he coordinated the EC’s economic analysis on antitrust, mergers and state aid. He was previously professor at Univ. Bologna (2007-2010), European University Institute, Florence (1998-2008) and UPF (1992-1998). His research is on industrial organization and has been published in the top international journals. Massimo’s book on Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2004) is the standard reference on antitrust. His (co-authored) book on Exclusionary Practices (Cambridge) was published in January 2018. He is the President of the European Association of Researchers in Industrial Economics.

Rosemarie Nagel is an ICREA-Research Professor and BESlab-UPF director in experimental, behavioral, and neuroeconomics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE. In 1994, Nagel gained her doctoral degree in economics under Reinhard Selten (University Bonn), and was Alvin Roth’s postdoctoral fellow (University Pittsburgh) 1994-95. Since 1995 she has been working in the Department of Economics and Business in Universitat Pompeu Fabra; in 2006, she was promoted to full professor, and in 2007 she joined ICREA as a research professor. Publications include the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behavior, Strategic Management Journal, and popular press as Financial Times and Spektrum der Wissenschaft.

Gábor Lugosi received his PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1991 in electrical engineering. Since September 1996, he has been at the Department of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University. He became ICREA Research Professor in 2006.

I am ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). I am also Affiliated Faculty of the Barcelona GSE and of the Institute of Political Economy and Governance, and Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. I hold master degrees from Sorbonne and Brown University and a Ph.D. from Brown University. Prior to joining UPF, I was post-doctoral fellow at Yale University, and assistant and then associate professor of economics at Sciences Po (Paris). My work has been published in some of the world’s most renown reviews in economics including the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of the European Economic Association. In 2018 I was awarded a five-year 1.5M€ starting grant from the European Research Council for a project on “Independence and Quality of Mass Media in the Internet Age”.

Jan Eeckhout is ICREA research professor at UPF, Barcelona. His research in macroeconomics focusses on the labor market and market power. His work has been published in the AER, QJE, Econometrica, REStud, JPE. He has received funding from the NSF and the ERC, as well as private grants have supported his research. Jan Eeckhout has been a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was for 9 years. He has also been the Louis A. Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton University, he has been a visiting professor at NYU Stern and he has been a visiting scholar at MIT. He has been editor of the International Economic Review and is currently on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Economic Theory, and is past editorial board member of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is fellow of the Econometric Society, European Economic Association, and Academia Europaea. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from LSE in 1998.