I am a postdoc at the Algorithms and Complexity department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, currently visiting José Correa and Victor Verdugo in Chile. I obtained my PhD at the DISCO group at TU Berlin, where I was fortunate to be advised by Max Klimm and Felix Fischer. Previously, I graduated as an industrial engineer and MS in Operations Management at Universidad de Chile, being advised by José Correa and Victor Verdugo for my thesis.
My research interests lie in the intersection of economics and computation, especially in the fields of algorithmic game theory and social choice. I enjoy thinking about topics such as mechanism design without money and political apportionment using tools from discrete mathematics and optimization.
Email: jcembran [at] mpi-inf.mpg.de
(Sep 25) Our paper on combinatorial insights for monotone apportionment, together with José Correa, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis, and Victor Verdugo, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research.
(Sep 25) I started a visiting position in Chile, with José Correa and Victor Verdugo, to explore questions related to apportionment in dynamic environments.
(Aug 25) Our paper on optimal impartial correspondences, together with Felix Fischer and Max Klimm, was accepted for publication in Social Choice and Welfare.
(Jul 25) Our paper on proportionality in multiple dimensions to design electoral systems, together with José Correa, Gonzalo Díaz, and Victor Verdugo, was accepted for publication in Social Choice and Welfare.
(May 25) Our paper on near-feasible fair allocations in two-sided markets, together with Andrés Moraga and Victor Verdugo, was accepted for EC'25.
(Apr 25) We are offering a seminar course on mechanism design without money this summer semester, together with Kurt Mehlhorn and Golnoosh Shahkarami.
(Mar 25) I'll be attending the 15th Day on CGT at Tilburg University.
(Feb 25) Here is a short article about our paper on apportionment methods with José Correa, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis, and Victor Verdugo.
(Feb 25) Our paper on single-nomination impartial selection, together with Felix Fischer and Max Klimm, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research.