Dr. Alfredo Hernández Sánchez
I am a computational social scientist examining how ideas and narratives shape political and financial systems. Currently, I hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ERA Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vilnius University and I am also a Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies. My current project, FIRSA, studies how FinTech regulatory sandboxes have developed across Europe and analyzes how regulators balance promoting innovation with safeguarding financial stability using qualitative and quantitative methods.
My broader research agenda explores how political narratives evolve and impact different policies and institutions, such as central banks and anti-corruption initiatives. Alongside research, I have taught several courses on data science for social scientists and regularly share tutorials and visualizations on my website.