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Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Laura Fumagalli

Laura is an applied economist, working on topics related to education, health, and development economics. Currently, most of her research agenda is centred around the study of well-being and adolescents’ behaviour.

LSE

Jet G. Sanders

Jet is a behavioural scientist, trained in experimental psychology and real world implementation of laboratory evidence using randomised controlled trials in field to improve health and wellbeing on a population level. Currently she is focused on how everyday time perception affects risk tolerance, decision making and behaviour on a population level. Her research shows that the experiential fluctuation of weekly cycle influences our risk-taking behaviour, with serious consequences for health care,

King's College London

Caitjan Gainty

Caitjan Gainty is a historian of 20th century health and healthcare. She is the PI of the Wellcome-funded project Healthy Scepticism, which reconsiders the role of evidence and expertise in medical knowledge-making processes, and her first book, in preparation, considers the early-twentieth century industrial origins of American healthcare. Her commitment to offering historical perspective on contemporary healthcare has recently led a series of articles on COVID-19.

University of Kent

Yannis Galanakis

Yannis Galanakis is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Economics at the University of Kent. His research interests lie in Labour and Applied Economics. His recent work focuses on firm creation, mismatch and gender inequalities in the labour market.

Bocconi University

Vincenzo Galasso

Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan; Research Fellow at CEPR, London at CES-Ifo, Munich, and at IGIER, Milan. He is the Director of the Research Unit “APE, Analysis in Pension Economics” at Baffi Center. He is co-Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy, and of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. His research deals with political economics, aging, social security and the welfare state.

London Business School

Andrea Galeotti

Andrea Galeotti is an expert in microeconomics, industrial organisation and game theory. His research focuses on the economics of networks, with a particular interest in diffusion models and strategic behaviour. His most recent work studies optimal policy interventions that are targeted taking into account network structure. Since the starting of Covid-19 pandemic he has been interested in the information value of testing, and how to combine information theory within network models to better