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{{Complex Systems Summer School 2014}}

I am studying the third year of my PhD in Economics at the European University Institute, with a scholarship given by the Spanish Government. I was born in Galicia, in the Northwest of Spain and lived there until the end of the second year of my Economics degree, spending most of my free time in a little village with four houses. After that I moved to Glasgow to finish my Bachelors, then to London for the masters, and finally to Florence.  My research focuses in the role of information inequality and peer effects on different social systems and markets. I am currently studying the triggering of mass protests in authoritarian regimes, the significance of peer effects for Pakistan civil servants’ productivity, the effect of graph temperature and entropy on consensus time in regular networks, the role of heterogeneous expectations about future prices across Spanish households during the last housing bubble, and the support for increasing regional autonomy and independence in Western Europe. My interests outside of the office are even more dispersed! I will be arriving to Santa Fé in the middle of an internship at the International Labour Organization, in Geneva, very grateful to the manager of the project for facilitating me to combine both experiences, and looking forward to it!