Alberto Cottica
R&D Specialist at UNDP Accelerator Labs
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolAlberto Cottica is an R&D specialist and policy-oriented researcher with 12+ years leading interdisciplinary research teams at institutions like UNDP Accelerator Labs and Edgeryders, studying how collective intelligence emerges from networked individual behavior. He combines economics, network science and data analysis with ethnographic methods to turn grounded hypotheses and quality data into actionable, documented research products and toolkits for scaling sustainable development solutions. Experienced across public and private sectors, he has steered large collaborative projects for the Council of Europe, Italy’s ministries and regional development initiatives, and champions open research, reproducibility and research ethics. A practiced public speaker and prolific communicator—blogging since 2005 and author of a public book on collective intelligence—he brings a rare mix of quantitative rigor, qualitative insight and real-world program design. Fun fact: before his research career he was a professional musician and songwriter with Modena City Ramblers, an experience that shaped his collaborative and creative approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea, Economics, Laurea, Economics at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio EmiliaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Sobresaliente, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Sobresaliente at Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de AlicanteUniversity College London
Spanish, German, Italian, English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
counter10
imap-client9
data-api9
conversations9
smtp-client9
csv8
email-client8
e-mail8
pgp8
security7
metadata7
schema7
validation7
annotate7
search-engine7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
spaghetti-open-data/eu-research-funding-network
May 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 9 months
horizon2020fp7partnerships
edgeryders/network-viz-for-ssna
Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
Beautiful, fast social network representations of the conversation on online fora running Discourse. Made for https://edgeryders.eu.
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
social-networkdiscourserepresentationsconversationsocial-media
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