March 8th 2010

After a selection and evaluation process carried out over last winter, the Department of Economics and Business of UPF has hired six new faculty, one professor at the senior market and five assistants at the junior market. A brief profile of the new professors is presented below.

1. Ana Valenzuela: Ph.D. in Marketing at the Universitat Autònoma de Madrid (1998), Marketing Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Berkeley, California (2001). She is presently a professor at the Baruch College de New York.
2. Larbi Alaoui: Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. BS in Physics and in Mathematics, Minor in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Msc. in Economics (merit), London School of Economics, 2004. Teaching and Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics.
3. Davide Cantoni: Ph.D. at Harvard University. Teaching and Research Fields: Primary fields: Economic History, Macroeconomics.
4. Christian Fons-Rosen: Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. Teaching and Research Fields: Primary Fields: Economics of Innovation, Labour Economics.
5. Christian Matthes: Ph.D. in Economics at the New York University. Teaching and Research Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Monetary Economics.
6. Luigi Pascali: Ph.D. in Economics at the Boston College. Teaching and Research Fields: Macroeconomics.