Javier Garcia-bernardo
Assistant Professor at Utrecht University
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJavier Garcia-bernardo is an assistant professor and computational social scientist in Amsterdam with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience applying network modeling and simulations to complex social and political systems. He holds a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Amsterdam and an MS in Computer Science, blending rigorous quantitative methods with domain knowledge from biotechnology and systems biology. Javier has moved between academia and applied policy research—serving as a data scientist at the Tax Justice Network and conducting computational political economy research during his PhD—bringing a rare mix of theoretical modeling and real-world data work. He is skilled at translating mechanistic models into policy-relevant insights and often draws on biological modeling intuition to study social dynamics. Colleagues describe him as someone who connects deep technical expertise with a pragmatic focus on societal impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.0 at University of VermontBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biotechnology at Universidad de LeónDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Economy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Economy at University of Amsterdam
Spanish, English, Dutch
Github Skills (31)
facebook-graph-api7
conda6
python6
statistics4
geographic4
crawler4
react4
geospatial2
r2
openstreetmap2
shiny-apps2
text-mining2
nominatim2
survey2
classification1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jgarciab/schoolShootings
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
Net-Science/Net-Science.github.io
Jul 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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