Fabiana Visentin joined UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University in September 2018. Previously, she worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland, and at the Goizueta Business School, Atlanta, USA. 

Her research interests focus on the microeconomics of innovation and the economics of science area. In these topics, her contributions have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Research Policy, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Science and Public Policy, and PlosOne.

Her work has been cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and featured by Science, the LSE Impact blog, as well as VoxEU, the World Economic Forum, and ScienceInsider.

Latest news:

• "What makes a productive Ph.D. student?" (with Alberto Corsini and Michele Pezzoni) has been featured by Science, ResearchProfessional News, and The Higher Education
• Fabiana and her co-authors talk about one of their latest works "How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit?" https://www.spreaker.com/user/innotechhub/ep-88-how-fast-novel-technologies-become
• An interview by Nature Index on How to be strategic in applying for grants

Full CV (pdf)

Selected publications by Fabiana Visentin