I'm Javier, an assistant professor at Utrecht University in the Social Data Science (SoDa) team Before that, I was a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam and at Charles University (CORPTAX), and a data scientist at the Tax Justice Network. In my research I apply computational models to understand social and economical systems. I completed my PhD in Political Economy at the CORPNET group (University of Amsterdam), and my MSc in Computer Science at the Univerity of Vermont.

Research interests:

(1) Computational social science: Polarization and inequality.
(2) Political economy: Corporate networks, tax avoidance, corporate power.
(3) Biological Complex Systems: Stochasticity in genetic networks and single-cell dynamics.
(4) Data science: Web Scraping, machine learning, data visualization.

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