Caterina Calsamiglia

Caterina Calsamiglia is an ICREA Research Professor and the group leader of the Computational Social Science and Humanities unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She also leads the Welfare and Equity Group. She is a Research Fellow of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

Calsamiglia’s research focuses on education policy, social choice, and public economics, with a particular emphasis on designing fair and efficient assignment mechanisms for schools and other public resources. In her work, she integrates AI and data-intensive solutions into public policy, with a particular focus on market design and education policy.

She has published extensively in top economics and public policy journals, contributing to both theoretical and applied research on topics such as school choice, affirmative action, and social welfare.

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with governments and institutions to improve policy design using rigorous empirical and computational methods.

Caterina Calsamiglia earned her PhD in Economics at Yale University in 2005.