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.
Dr. José Abad
José holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Exeter, UK. He also completed the Advanced Studies Program in International Economics at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany, and specialized in Quantitative Methods at Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain. Additionally, he has a dual Licenciatura in Law and Finance from ICADE, Spain.
Currently, José is a consultant in the Economic and Market Research Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, in Washington, DC. His prior roles include positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Goldman Sachs in London, and as Chief Economist at the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO) in Madrid.
His research focuses on the usability of bank capital buffers and the political economics of subnational public finances. He was awarded the 2022 Federico Prades Prize (Spanish Banking Association) and nominated for the 2023 Rybczynski Prize (Society of Professional Economists, UK).
Professor 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.
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.
Denis Ivanov is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Corvinus University of Budapest and a research fellow at Vilnius University. His research interests include socio-economic inequality, populism, the political economy of transition, and quantitative methods. He has received several prestigious awards, including the CKK Research Excellence Award (2024), the Hans Raupach Best Paper Award (2020) at the 12th Joint IOS/EACES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe, and most recently, the EACES Doctoral Award (2024) for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative economic systems. His work has been published in the European Journal of Political Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, and East European Politics.
Mahir Yazar
Mahir Yazar is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research examines the complexities of backlash amid climate change and energy transitions in Europe, focusing on the rise of populism, global climate policy diffusion, and environmental justice. His work has been supported by funding from H2020 and seed grants from the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) at Brown University. These studies have been published in leading journals, including Nature Cities, Global Environmental Change, Political Geography, Urban Studies, Climatic Change, and Environmental Science and Policy.
Christos Papagiannis
Director of the Eteron Institute for Research and Social Change and a PhD candidate in European Studies, specializing in the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence, at Maastricht University. A graduate of the Department of Political Science and History at Panteion University, where he was valedictorian and recipient of the IKY Foundation scholarship (Greek State Scholarships). He holds a Master’s degree in International Communication from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and is currently completing a Master’s in Public Administration at the London School of Economics (LSE). His professional experience spans media, including roles as a digital marketing manager and political researcher at the German Press Agency (DPA).
Marcos Esteban Valentinuz
Marcos is a PhD candidate in Social Studies at the National University of the Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina). His research explores the developmental role of the state in Latin America. In particular, he examines state capacity in the field of industrial policy with a multinivel approach, focusing on Argentina and the Province of Entre Ríos during the twenty-first century.