I have more than 20 years of research experience. Starting from Statistical Physics, I have been working on stochastic processes, continuous time random walks, extreme time statistics for a wide class of complex systems. Through an overlap of theoretical and empirical approaches, I have developed methods, tools, models within the field of complex systems science to explore social, economic and financial phenomena. My publications cover the following fields: multidisciplinary science, mathematical physics, condensed matter physics, economics, financial mathematics or finance (finance journals are not included in Web of Science but, according to Google Scholar, my 2 publications in finance have 141 citations, 2nd and 4th most cited publications), environmental economics, human behavior sciences, mobility and, more recently, citizen science. My doctoral thesis in 2001 represents the first PhD in Spain dedicated exclusively to the study of financial markets from the perspective of physics (econophysics). After 2 years holding an Assistant Professor position at the University of Barcelona, I first obtained a Lecturer (tenured tracked position) and then a permanent professor (Associate Professor, Profesor Contratado Doctor, 2008). From 2009 to 2012, I combine my academic duties with my responsabilities as a director of the Laboratori space in Arts Santa Mònica, building bridges between scientific research and artistic creation. The results include 7 exhibition projects with more than 1 million visitors. Visitors play an active role in space with data and scientific knowledge. The project deserves the award as Best Knowledge Transfer Project of the UB (2011) and is chosen among the 25 most innovative initiatives of the Catalan public administration (Innogencat). This heterodox experience and the rise of data science appear as disruptive elements in my scientific career. I observe in Arts Santa Mònica the possibilities of experimental platforms in open and out-of-the-lab contexts that allow generating data related to real-world situations. My interest in social systems research takes on special prominence and I begin to run experiments to study specific behavioral traits in public spaces and mostly through social dilemmas. I then conceive OpenSystems in 2013, an agile and organic research group ready for participatory scientific research within the framework of citizen science. This Copernican twist begins to bear its high-quality scientific fruits not without a great prior effort to build an experimental digital platform attached to an infrastructure ready to be set in the public space. My recent works in Nature Communications, Science Advances or Scientific Reports collect complex interactions through experiments that, in some cases, have been co-designed with the community interested in the results of the research. The total number of the participants so far is being more 2,000 people. I belong to the University of Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems. I am secretary of the dean of the Faculty of Physics of the UB, deputy director of the TECNIO group of Data Science of the UB, founding member of the European Association of Citizen Science (ECSA, 2013), Academic Chair of the 2nd world conference on citizen science (CSA Conf, 2017), representative of the UB in the citizen science group of the European League of Research Universities and both coordinator and promoter of the Barcelona Citizen Science Office.
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