Department: Historia Contemporánea

Centre: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y la Comunicación

Campus: Bizkaia

Area: Physical Chemistry

Email: igor.calzada@ehu.eus

Personal web: https://www.igorcalzada.com/publications

Doctor by the Mondragon Unibertsitatea with the thesis ¿hacia una ciudad vasca? Aproximación desde la innovación social 2011. Supervised by Dr. Joseba Zulaika.

Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA, is a Principal Investigator (PI) and Established Researcher (R3) at Cardiff University/WISERD (UK), Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) as Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Social Sciences and Communication (Spain), and Fulbright Scholar (USA). From 2012-2022, he has been Senior Scientist at the University of Oxford, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, UN-Habitat, and has held academic positions in 14 universities worldwide (particularly, UK, USA, and Spain). From 2002-2011, he worked at Mondragon Cooperatives and held a Director of Innovation & Technology position in the Basque Government (Spain). His research currently revolves around how decentralization as a paradigm shift can change the course of data-opolies and AI through emerging Web3 Decentralized Technologies including case studies in different fields (i.e. Diaspora Studies www.hanhemen.eus; Cooperation 4 Development www.socialsolver.org) around Blockchain, DAOs, and Data Co-operatives. Google Scholar: Citations 4366; h-index 30; i10-index 63.