Stefano Balietti
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Curriculum Vitae
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Heidelberg, Germany
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Previous Positions
Postdoc Researcher (Chair of Data Science in Econ. & Soc. Sciences)
University of Mannheim
01/09/2022 - 30/08/2025
Fellow at MZES (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research)
01/07/2019 - 31/08/2022
Postdoc at Alfred-Weber Institute of Economics (Heidelberg University)
01/07/2019 - 31/08/2022
Postdoc Researcher at Microsoft Research Computational Social Science (NYC)
23/7/2018 - 30/06/2019
Postdoc at Northeastern Network Science Institute
1/1/2016 - 22/7/2018
Fellow at Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science
1/1/2016 - 22/7/2018
Postdoc at ETH Zurich (Computational Social Science)
23/07/2015 - 31/12/2015
Education
PhD, ETH Zurich (Computational Social Science)
20/11/2011 - 22/07/2015
Dissertation:
The Complex Systems of Science: Computer simulations, laboratory and online experiments
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Topics:
Science of science, scientometrics, agent-based simulations, behavioral economics, public goods games.
Research Assistant, ETH Zurich (Prof. Dirk Helbing)
17/08/2009 - 20/11/2011
Projects: VISIONEER, FuturICT Flagship Initiative.
MA Economics and Business (110/110 cum laude)
01/12/2005 - 04/07/2008
Dissertation:
GIG: GARCH in Gretl (Econometrics software package).
Internet Science Degree (110/110 cum laude)
01/07/2002 - 29/11/2005
Dissertation:
The Futur-NK Simulator (Agent-based NK worlds exploration).
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