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We are a multidisciplinary group with people from different backgrounds such as economics or sociology. The principal investigator is María R. Vicente.
María R. Vicente
María Rosalía Vicente is Associate Professor of Applied Economics in the University of Oviedo. She holds a PhD. in Economics from that same university.
Her work focuses on the analysis of the diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), their socioeconomic effects along with the corresponding digital divides and the uses of Big Data for economic analysis.
The results of her research activity include a total of 40 articles in scientific publications, author/co-author of 17 books/book chapters, and 20 research projects/contracts. Among them, it is worth mentioning the project carried out in collaboration with Cisco Systems International and the University of Oxford which results were cited by the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, The International Herald Tribune, and the BBC, among others. Recently she has led a project on the study of life satisfaction among Spaniards during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) funded by La Caixa Foundation.
Ana Jesús López
Ana Jesús López is full professor in Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Oviedo (Spain), Department of Applied Economics.
She has been involved in several research projects and authored a wide variety of papers published in high level international journals including Social Indicators Research, Regional Studies, Journal of Forecasting, Economics Letters, Energy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Environmental Management, Test, Environmental Science and Policy, Empirical Economics, Telecommunications Policy. She has supervised seven PhD dissertations and has been Coordinator of the PhD Program “Economics and Sociology of Globalization”, Oviedo (Quality Distinction by the Ministry or Education and Culture, 2005).
Ana Suárez Álvarez
Ana Suárez Álvarez is Assistant Professor in the department of Applied Economics at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She holds a MSc in Economic Development and Growth at Carlos III University and a PhD in Economics at University of Oviedo. Previously, she was a FPU Predoctoral researcher at University of Oviedo. She was visiting researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), the Luxembourg Cross-National Data Center (LIS), Université Paris Dauphine and Sapienza University of Rome.
Her main research interests include social inequalities, inequality of opportunity, subjective well-being, well-being, and the socio-economic impacts of the digital transition.
Pablo de Pedraza
As a researcher, his main interest is to study labor market, happiness, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using web data. He has also developed theoretical models on the functioning of the Digital Economy. He has published 19 papers in indexed journals and more than 15 technical reports of the European Commission, some of them used as reference in Communications of the Commission. He has been the editor of a book on mobile data usage and has written several book chapters. He has successfully participated and led numerous competitive calls and participated in almost 30 research projects, being both a member of the team and a principal investigator. He has internationally coordinated several networks of experts and multidisciplinary groups and cooperated with companies to facilitate access to data. He has experience in project management using the methodology of the European Commission: Project Management PM². He has also been a founding partner of innovative companies.
José-Luis Martínez-Cantos
José-Luis Martínez-Cantos is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Public Economics and Political Economy of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Previously, he was Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Applied Sociology at the Faculty of Education of the UCM and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute-IN3 of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), as well as pre-doctoral granted fellow at UCM and visiting PhD student at the Department of IT Management of the Copenhagen Business School.
His main research interests are linked to gender relations, digital society, educational opportunities and labour market inequalities. During these years he has been author of 10 papers in academic indexed journals, 4 books, 7 book chapters and 10 scientific reports with an estimable impact. He has also participated in 15 competitive R&D projects, plus other 22 non-competitive contracts with public and private entities (as principal investigator in one of them); 9 of those research projects have had international scope or funding.
Amparo Novo Vázquez
Amparo is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She holds a PhD in Political Science at University of Santiago de Compostela. Her main research interests are linked to sociology of work, labour market, gender relations, political participation, and social habits among others.
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