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Participating researchers:
Mar Talens
ESSGN doctoral candidate
Email: mar.talensmb@gmail.com
Mar studied for a degree in Human Biology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She then moved to Stockholm, where she studied for a Master’s degree in Public Health at Karolinska Institutet. She is now pursuing a PhD at the Università di Bologna on epigenetic aging and gene-environment interaction.
Tomeu López-Nieto Veitch
ESSGN doctoral candidate
Email: tomeu.lnv@gmail.com
Tomeu López-Nieto Veitch is a PhD student in the project “Estimation of treatment effects: Can genetic data provide a biological foundation for observed heterogeneity in individuals’ choices?” of the ESSGN. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University and a master’s degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from Tilburg University. He also completed the first year of the master’s degree in Statistics and Operations Research at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His professional experience includes working as an adjunct lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he taught statistics to undergraduate economics students and holding positions as research assistant at the Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Barcelona and Tilburg University, specialising mostly on health and labour economics.
Pietro Biroli
Associate professor of economics
Email: pietro.biroli@unibo.it
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/pietrobiroli/
Pietro Biroli is an associate professor of economics at the University of Bologna. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, and then was UBS Foundation Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Zurich. He is a research affiliate at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at UZH, IZA, fRDB, HCEO, CHILD, CAGE, CEPR, and CESifo. His research focuses on the early origins and life cycle evolution of health and human capital. He explores the importance of genetics, family investment, and early childhood interventions in explaining health and economic inequality. With his work, he aims to understand the mechanisms through which effective policy interventions and optimal choices of investment can help mitigate innate inequalities and promote health and human capital development.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 programme under grant agreement number 101073237
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