Stefano Balietti
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. (Woody Allen)
Bio
- First name / Last name: Stefano Balietti
- Email: stefanobalietti.com@gmail.com (yes, twice .com!)
Current Position
- Postdoc in the group of Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim.
- 01/09/2022 - current
Previous Postdoctoral Positions
- Fellow at the Center for European Social Science Research at Mannheim University (MZES)
- 01/07/2019 - 31/08/2022
- Postdoc at the Alfred-Weber Institute of Economics at Heidelberg University .
- 01/07/2019 - 31/08/2022
- Postdoc Researcher at Microsoft Research Computational Social Science.
- 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 in the group of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich.
- 23/07/2015 - 31/12/2015
Education
- PhD student in the group of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich.
- 20/11/2011 - 22/07/2015
- Dissertation Title: The Complex Systems of Science: Computer simulations, laboratory and online experiments.
Co-examiners: Prof. Robert L. Goldstone (Indiana University) and Prof. Andreas Flache (University of Groningen).
Principal subjects covered:
Scientific topics: Science of science, scientometrics, sociology of science, evolutionary modeling, agent-based simulations, behavioral economics, public goods experiments, systemic effects of competition and meritocracy, efficiency in coordination games, e.g. congestion games.
Computational skills: data analysis, econometrics, R, MATLAB, Node.js, JavaScript, JAVA, PHP, Drupal, data mining, distributed systems. - Dissertation Title: The Complex Systems of Science: Computer simulations, laboratory and online experiments.
- Research Assistant at the Chair of Sociology in particular Modelling and Simulation. Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich
- 17/08/2009 - 20/11/2011
- Principal subjects covered: Responsible for the VISIONEER project (http://visioneer.ethz.ch) and the FuturICT Flagship Initiative (http://futurict.eu).
- MA Economics and Corporate 1st Class (Final grade: 110/110 cum laude)
- 01/12/2005 - 04/07/2008
- Principal subjects covered: Econometrics, Corporate Strategies, International Economics, International Finance, International Monetary Economics, Business Programming.
- Internet Science Degree 1st class (Final grade: 110/110 cum laude)
- 01/07/2002 - 29/11/2005
- Principal subjects covered: Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Programming, Operating Systems, Internet Architecture, Databases, Corporate Finance, Marketing.
- Scientific Liceo FM Campana (Final grade: 100/100)
- 01/07/1998 - 01/07/2002
- Principal subjects covered: Mathematics, Philosophy, Italian Literature, Latin, English, History, Philosophy, Art and History of Art.
Personal Skills and Competences
- Languages
- Italian: mother tongue
- English: fluent
- Spanish (Castillan): fluent
- German: intermediate
- Romanian: intermediate
- Swedish: basic
- Norwegian: basic