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Meet the team who can make that happen...
Meet the team who can make that happen...
Directors
Professor Maria Fasli
Director and Research Lead: Methodologies for Big Data
Maria’s research interests lie in agents and multi-agent systems and their theoretical foundations and practical applications, machine learning, data exploration, analysing and modelling complex data, and Big Data.
Professor Vania Sena
Deputy Director and Research Lead: Local Economic Growth
Vania's research focuses mainly on the econometric analysis of the determinants of productivity growth, both at the micro and macro level.
Professor Jerry Coakley
Deputy Director and Research Lead: Local Economic Growth
Jerry's research interests include asset pricing anomalies, mergers and acquisitions, international finance and exchange rate modelling, and behavioural finance.
Co-investigators
Professor Julien Forder
Research Lead for Supporting Vulnerable People
Julien’s main academic interests are social care funding, care markets and competition, health and social care integration, personalisation and measuring the impact of services for people with long-term conditions.
Professor Ruth Hancock
Research Lead for Supporting Vulnerable People
Ruth's research interests are in the economic, health and social policy implications of individual and population ageing with a particular focus on financial provision for later life and provision for long-term care needs.
Professor Andrew Lovett
Research Lead for Mapping Access to Green Infrastructure
Andrew's current research interests include applications of GIS, landscape visualisation software and statistical techniques.
Centre Staff
Project Manager
Nigel is responsible for the overall project management for the Centre with specific responsibility for finance and resources. He is also responsible for meeting KPIs and providing Value For Money for our funding body the Economic and Social Research Council. Nigel is part of the Senior Management Team.
Executive Officer and Centre Administrator
Lyn provides support to the Centre Director, financial management, human resource management and general administration of the Centre as well as being the main liaison with the University of Essex.
PECO
Paul is responsible for all print and digital output from the Centre, identifying the policy impacts of the Centre's research. He also is responsible for developing the strategic direction of the Centre's communications activities.
Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
Laura is one of two people responsible for the engagement and outreach activities of the Centre. This includes working with the public and private sector to identify ways we can use our services to help them.
Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
Aaron is one of two people responsible for the engagement and outreach activities of the Centre. This includes working with the public and private sector to identify ways we can use our services to help them.
Project Office Administrator
George provides support for the Centre's training activities, communications activities and engagement events.
Research User Support Officer
Shao assists researchers in accessing datasets held by the Centre and can answer queries about the data we hold.
Senior Administrative Assistant
Based at the University of East Anglia Lisa is the joint central point of contact for the UEA team providing administration and budget support to the UEA team involved in the Centre.
Senior Administrative Assistant
Based at the University of East Anglia, Heather is the joint central point of contact for the UEA team providing administration support to the UEA team involved in the Centre. She is responsible for processing queries on Data Analytics Innovation Vouchers, and the operation of the data centre “safe room” at UEA.
Nieves Arranz
Researcher
Nieves' current research interests include joint R&D projects, R&D networks and international projects.
Dr Raffaella Calabrese
Researcher
Rafaella's research interests include developing new models to analyse credit risk and systemic risk.
Professor Andrew Fearne
Researcher
Andrew's research interests include consumer behaviour, inter-organisational relationships and value chain analysis.
Dr Juan Carlos Fernandez de Arroyabe
Researcher
Juan's research interests include trategy, structure and governance of joint R&D projects; dynamics of networks; and internationalization of small and medium-size enterprises.
Professor Claudia Girardone
Researcher
Claudia's research interests include Modelling efficiency and productivity of financial institutions, Integration in banking and financial markets and SMEs finance.
Academic staff - Local Economic Growth
Professor Neil Kellard
Researcher
Neil's research interests include Finance, International Finance, Development and Applied econometrics.
Aristogenis Lazos
Researcher
Aristogenis' current research interests include small-medium enterprises in a prospect theory framework, which may help explain why institutional investors invest in small-medium enterprises.
Anupriya Misra
Researcher
Anupriya's current research interests include entrepreneurship in rural labour markets and development of rural areas.
Mingchen Sun
Researcher
Mingchen's current research interests include investigating the credit scoring model for SMEs using the firm-level data.
Dr Shaomin Wu
Researcher
Shaomin's current research interests include Business Data Analysis, Applied Stochastic Processes, and Risk Management.
Dr Beatriz de la Iglesia
Researcher
Beatriz's current research interests include data mining and in particular the extraction of partial classification rules or nuggets using meta-heuristic algorithms.
Dr Udo Krushwitz
Researcher
Udo's current research interests include Natural language processing (NLP) and Information retrieval (IR) and the implementation of such techniques in real applications.
Professor Elena Kulinskaya
Researcher
Elena's current research interests include Foundations of statistics, Statistical methods for discrete and skewed data, Asymptotic methods, Applied statistics and Meta-analysis and research synthesis.
Professor Berthold Lausen
Researcher
Berthold's's current research interests include Biostatistics, Classification, Clinical Research, Computational Statistics, Epidemiology, and Systems Biology.
Professor Klaus MacDonald-Maier
Researcher
Klaus's current research interests include Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology to increase performance and reliability.
Academic staff - Methodologies for Big Data
Professor Abdellah Salhi
Researcher
Abdellah's current research interests include Optimisation: Mathematical Programming and Heuristics, Numerical Analysis; Data Mining and Bioinformatics.
Dr Abhijit Sengupta
Researcher
Abhijit's current research interests include Innovation and technology management, Firm strategy, Role of ecosystems and institutions on innovation and firm strategy, Networks and complex systems, and Analytics and behaviour.
Dr Stephen Allan
Researcher
Stephen is a social and health care economist with a particular interest in the English care homes market for older people.
Dr James Cornford
Researcher
James' is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of East Anglia.
Amanda Burke
Researcher
Amanda's current research interests include neighbourhood renewal in deprived neighbourhoods and in cultural services.
Dr Ferran Espuny Pujol
Researcher
Ferran's current research interests include Social Care and Health Care methodological and applied research.
Dr Jose-Luiz Fernandez
Researcher
Jose-Luiz' current research interests include ageing-related policies, the interaction between health and social care, and the economic evaluation of health and social care services and systems.
Academic staff - Support for Vulnerable People
Lisanne Gitsels
Researcher
Lisanne's current research interests include analysing longitudinal data to contribute to solving current social.
Professor Morten Hviid
Researcher
Morten's current research interests are in the areas of competition law, industrial economics, tort law and contract law.
Dr Marcello Morciano
Researcher
Marcello's current research interests include The economics of disability, Applied health micro-econometrics and Health and public economics of ageing.
Professor Beth Neil
Researcher
Beth's current research interests include management of psychological issues for adopted children and young people, birth relatives and adoptive parents.
Professor Stephen Pudney
Researcher
Stephen is an applied econometrician working mainly on health and disability issues.
Professor Gillian Schofield
Researcher
Gillian's current research interests include planning systems and the nature of foster and adoptive family relationships, in particular the use of attachment theory to promote security and resilience.
Dr Katy Appleton
Researcher
Katy's current research interests include GIS-based landscape visualisation, particularly for communication and participation purposes relating to environmental management and decision-making.
Dr Amii Harwood
Researcher
Amii's current research interests include quantitative geography, spatial analysis and GIS.
Professor Andy Jones
Researcher
Andy's current research interests include environmental determinants of physical activity and obesity.
Dr Gilla Sunnenberg
Researcher
Gilla currently works on our Mapping Green Infrastructure stream.