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ABSTRACT / In this talk I will present examples of problems arising in complex social systems where getting behavior on human data is of the essence for a correct understanding of the mechanisms at work. Along the way, I will discuss the results we obtained but will enter in detail in the issues arising in the process of collecting data, from the experiment or survey design to its practical implementation. I will include examples on game-theoretical experiments on networks, experiments to check computational social science models, mixed survey-experiment research on preferences on public expenditures, and studies of social relationships (both successful and failed because of the data).
BIO / Anxo Sánchez: PhD in Theoretical Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 1991. Fulbright postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 1993-1994. Currently, he is full professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he founded the Interdisciplinary Group in Complex Systems (GISC, www.gisc.es) in 1996. He is also an associated researcher with the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI). He has co-authored more than 180 papers in prestigious international journals, and he has been an invited speaker at more than 50 national and international conferences. He has contributed to the advancement of different fields including theoretical and condensed matter physics, electronic engineering, theoretical biology, sociology, history and theoretical computer science. His current research deals mostly with human behavior on complex social and socio-technical systems. He has been the PI of more than 20 projects, with funding from the European Commission, the Spanish government, the Madrid regional government, NATO, ESF, and the BBVA Foundation, and he has also collaborated with the gas & oil company Repsol (www.repsol.com), with the consulting company Everis (www.everis.com) and with Zaro Transportation. He coordinated the FET Open RIA 662725 “Bridging the gap: From individual behaviour to the sociotechnical man” (IBSEN, 2015-2018), which has developed a pioneering capacity to perform structured and controlled multiplatform experiments in order to understand the behavior of people on large groups. He was a member of the FP7 coordination action for complex systems ASSYST and of the ESF Cost Actions “Physics of Risk” and “Physics of Cooperation and Conflict”. He is one of the co-directors of the Behavioral Economics Lab for Fundación COTEC (Spain).