Current LSE-Miguel Dols Fellows (Spring Term 2023)
Dr. Juan de Lucio
Juan de Lucio is Professor at the Universidad de Alcalá – UAH and main researcher of the high-performance research group I4. He has a extensive record of teaching in public and private universities and experience in research in different institutions such as FEDEA, the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and the Bank of Spain.
He is specialized in the field of applied economics analysis. He has an established research record with dozens of scientific articles. He regularly collaborates with various scientific dissemination projects, media and public institutions.
Dr. Pedro Fierro-Zamora
Pedro Fierro is an assistant professor at Adolfo Ibañez University and an adjunct researcher at the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Politics, Public Opinion and Media in Chile (Nucleo-MEPOP). He is also a researcher at P!ensa Foundation.
Before completing his PhD in Communication at the University of Navarra, he worked as a pre-doctoral visiting researcher at Universidad Pompeu Fabra and Digital UNAV. His research is focused on digital politics and territory, publishing articles in different journals, such as Technology in Society, New Media & Society, and Social Science Computer Review.
Dr. Silje Haus-Reve
She is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Innovation, Management, and Marketing at the Business School of the University of Stavanger. Her research focuses on innovation, regional development, and policy, drawing on insights from innovation studies and economic geography. Her particular interest lies in examining how knowledge and skills empower firms to innovate and drive regional development.
Dr. Ana-Maria Opria
She is assistant professor at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania.
During her PhD studies, she focused on assessing the impact of the LEADER Programme and the role of Local Action Groups in the sustainable development of the Romanian countryside.
The research interest is oriented towards the field of Human Geography. Currently, her research focuses on aspects related to sustainable development, with a particular attention on topics such as: management of European and national funding programs, inequalities in the distribution of funds for sustainable development, factors leading to different performances of rural communities in absorbing financial support.
Dr. Enrique Acebo
Enrique Acebo is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of León, where he earned a PhD Summa Cum Laude in Business Economics. His research focuses on how firms can leverage new products and processes in innovation ecosystems with the purpose of value creation and environmental sustainability. To study the determinants of firm innovation activities, his research builds on ideas from various disciplines, including business strategy, economics, and geographic economic.
Furthermore, it employs various methods, from econometrics and causal inference. His research has been published in well-known journals such as Business Strategy and Environment, Science and Public Policy and the European Journal of Innovation Management.
To get in touch with him, please use the following email address
PhD. Candidate Costanza Giannantoni
She is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of Public, Regional Economics and Political Economy. Her research explores how decentralisation policies affect subnational institutions and bureaucratic efficiency and, ultimately, local economic activity.
PhD. Candidate Zhuoying You
Zhuoying You is currently 3rd-year PhD candidate in the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation (MSI), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at KU Leuven. Her research interests include regional innovation, environmental sustainability, and international business. Prior to her PhD project, she earned an MSc in Business Strategy and Innovation Management from the University of Southampton.
To get in touch with her, please use the following email address
PhD. Candidate Javier Padilla
He is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the City University of New York (CUNY). He holds a master’s degree in philosophy and public Policy from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the fate of authoritarian elites in Latin American and South European democracies and how political parties are perceived on the left-right dimension.
PhD. Candidate Genghao Zhang
Genghao Zhang is a first year PhD student at the University of Bristol. The anticipated end date of his program: Advanced Quantitative Methods (PhD) is 18th September 2026. His research interests are Geography of Innovation and Twin Transitions.
To get in touch with him, please use the following email address
PhD. Candidate José Joaquín Luque García
He is a pre-doctoral researcher with an FPI
contract at the University of Málaga. He specialises in Economic History. His main line of research revolves around the gas industry in
Latin Europe. In this way, he analyses, through specialised gas newspapers and the documentation generated by the main gas associations, how the knowledge and techniques of this industry circulated between France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, without losing sight of the advances and expansion of British gas. In this way, his main contribution to the history of energy is the cataloguing, systematisation and analysis of the written press specialising in this field and of the main companies operating in the sector. Finally, it is worth mentioning his participation in the Spanish Government's Project of Excellence 'Gas in Latin Europe: a comparative and global perspective (1818-1945)', PID2020-112844GB-I00.
At the Cañada Blanch Centre he is working on deepening his research about the contribution of British technology, engineers and gas journals
to the gas industry in Spain and Latin Europe up to 1913.