Our team
People
Created under the leadership of the Esade Department of Marketing and the Esade Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences, the Esade Institute for Data-Driven Decisions has joined a unique transversal team of faculty members and senior researchers from the fields of marketing, artificial intelligence, innovation and data sciences with publications in top-ranked journals.
Led by Esade faculty Núria Agell and Marco Bertini, and advised by a top Advisory Committee, the Esade Institute for Data-Driven Decisions counts on a research team consisting of core faculty and dedicated post-docs to focus on key research questions in the data driven decisions field - academic and practitioner-oriented.
Leading faculty members
Postdoctoral researcher
Konstantina Zacharaki
Postdoctoral researcher
Advisor: Dr. Núria Agell
Research and fields of interest:
Developmental Psychology, Neurosciences
Jenn Nguyen
Postdoctoral researcher
Advisor: Dr. Núria Agell
Research and fields of interest:
Applied Artificial Intelligence; Learning Systems; Linguistic computation
PhD Candidates
Edmond Kozah
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Ana Valenzuela
Research and fields of interest:
Customer journey and Product attributes in omnichannel Retail
Shiva Mostafavi
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Alexis Mavrommatis
Research and fields of interest:
Can people have so much self-control?
İpek Özer
PhD student
Advisors: Dr María Galli & Dr Ana Valenzuela
Research and fields of interest:
The Sharing economy: what makes a consumer willing to share their possessions?
Bernat Salbanya
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Jordi Nin
Research and fields of interest:
Complex systems
External PhD Candidates
Wala Abuasaker
PhD student
Advisor: Dr Núria Agell
Research and fields of interest:
Mathematics for AI; Qualitative Reasoning; Fuzzy Reasoning