CV

General Information

Full Name
Javier Garcia-Bernardo
Email
j.garciabernardo [@] uu.nl
Signal
javier.64
Languages
Spanish (Mother tongue), English (C2), Dutch (B2)
Location
Utrecht, the Netherlands

Academic Timeline

  • Assistant Professor in Methodology & Statistics

    Oct 2021–Present

    Utrecht University, the Netherlands

    • Computational social science on inequality, polarization, taxation, and economic crime.
    • Research using population-scale administrative and social network data.
    • Development of software for social and behavioral science in the ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team.
    • Associate Member of the Centre for Complex Systems Studies (CCSS), Utrecht University.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Complexity

    Jun 2021–Oct 2021

    University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    • Designed online experiments and network-based models of information transmission, fidelity, and divisiveness.
    • Co-developed the Computational Social and Behavioral Science Community centered at the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Public Economics

    Jan 2021–Oct 2021

    Charles University, Prague, Czechia

    • Analyzed profit shifting, effective tax rates, and tax-haven structures using multinational firm-level and country-level data.
  • Data Scientist

    2019–2021

    Tax Justice Network

    • Research on corporate tax avoidance and illicit financial flows.
    • Contributed to evidence briefs, visualizations, and reproducible data workflows for tax justice reporting.
  • Co-founder and Data Scientist

    2019–2021

    Natixio

    Consultancy projects for the International Monetary Fund (2021), the OECD Economics Department (2019, 2020), the World Bank Group Investment Climate Unit (2021), The Left Group in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) (2021), the International Centre for Tax and Development at the University of Sussex (2020), and SEO Amsterdam Economics (2020).

  • PhD Candidate, PhD in Computational Political Science

    2015–2020

    University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    • Network science and computational political economy research on multinational ownership, tax havens, and offshore finance.
    • Developed large-scale data pipelines and network methods for corporate network analysis.
  • Complex Systems Summer School

    2018

    Santa Fe Institute, United States

  • Graduate RA & MSc in Computer Science

    2013–2015

    University of Vermont, United States

    • Built stochastic and mechanistic models of genetic regulatory networks and single-cell dynamics.
    • Developed computational models of social conflict and complex-system dynamics.
    • Certificate in Complex Systems.
  • BSc in Biotechnology

    2007–2012

    University of León, Spain

Selected Grants and Awards