AI, digitalisation and innovation
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Pierre-Alexandre Balland currently serves as the Chief Data Scientist of the Centre for European Policy Studies and…
Louise Bengtsson is an Associate Research Fellow in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital…
Artur Bogucki serves as an Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy…
Marta Dell'Aquila is a Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Christopher Fischer is a Research Fellow in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Paula Gürtler is Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Raquel Jorge is an Associate Research Fellow in the GRID unit at CEPS. She is…
Andreas Kopp is a Senior Research Fellow at CEPS. He is also a permanent member…
Maria Kostylew is a Research Assistant in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Leonie Kunze is Project Officer of the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Nicoleta Kyosovska is a Research Assistant in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Cosima Lenz is an Associate Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
J. Scott Marcus is an economist, engineer and public policy analyst. He is an Associate…
Berta Miszei is a Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, and Digital Economy (GRID)…
Carlos Navarrete is Head of Web Engineering in the Data Science team at CEPS. Carlos…
Carolina Polito is an Associate Research Assistant at CEPS, in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation,…
Robert is Data Scientist at CEPS. Previously, he worked in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation…
Lorenzo Pupillo is an Associate Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Cybersecurity @CEPS Initiative.…
Andrea Renda is Director of Research at CEPS since 1 November 2023. He also leads…
Nicole Reynolds is an Associate Research Fellow with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS),…
Francisco Ríos is a Junior Data Scientist in the CEPS Data Science team. Before joining…
Andrea G. Rodríguez is an Associate Research Fellow in the GRID Unit at CEPS. She…
Diana Senczyszyn is a Research Fellow in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy…
Sue Anne Teo joined CEPS as an Associate Research Fellow in November 2024, working in…
Hien is an Associate Researcher at the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy Unit (GRID). She…
Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung is a Research Fellow at CEPS. He is also an Associate Researcher…
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