The Centre and the Chair, in their desire to promote frontier research of relevance for Spain and the UK, welcomes the next term's LSE-Miguel Dols Fellows.
Prof. Francisco Javier Mato-Diaz
Fco. Javier Mato Diaz is Professor at the Department of Applied Economics in the University of Oviedo. He holds a PhD in Economics from Oviedo, and a MSc in European Social Policy from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the connections between labour markets, social, and educational policies. He has published on issues like evaluation of training for the unemployed, traineeships for young people, self-employment programmes, immigrants’ labour market outcomes, and the relationship between pandemic quarantines, labour market status and wellbeing.
Prof. Astrid Krenz
She is Professor of Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Sussex in the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre. Her research focuses on new technologies (digitalisation, robots, AI), regional economics and development, firm dynamics (such as location choices, productivity and trade), labour market analyses, and inequality, applying modern techniques from econometrics, data science and machine learning.
Ana Lleó-Bono
Ana is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is specializing in Behavioural, Experimental, and Organizational Economics. Her research focuses on topics such as productivity, team dynamics, and incentives, in particular, her PhD. thesis investigates the incentives’ structure of workers on the Spanish citrus industry to draw policy conclusions to balance quantity vs. quality trade-offs and avoid food waste.
Federico Zampollo (in X, formerly Twitter)
He is a PhD candidate in Regional Science and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (L’Aquila, Italy). His primary research interests lie in examining the influence of sub-national institutions on various socio-economic outcomes through the application of causal inference methods. Within his PhD research project, he investigates the interaction between local institutional quality and the geographical distribution of economic activities across Italian municipalities.
Daniela-Andreia Damian
She is a second-year PhD candidate in Geography at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, and Côte d'Azur University Nice, France. Her research explores the connection between human capital formation and academic trends in the European context, with a specific emphasis on the Romanian case. Through her research, she aims to offer insights that can inform policy decisions and contribute to the improvement of education in Romania.