Adrián Arias Díaz-Faes

Present position
Adrián is a Tenured Scientist at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), a joint research institute of CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). He is a social scientist specialised in the fields of social networks and innovation, quantitative science studies and science policy. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the SciCoMetrics project funded by the Spanish R&D Plan. He is also affiliated as a Visiting Researcher with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University.

Training
He has a multidisciplinary background, having earned a PhD and MSc in Applied Multivariate Statistics and BA in Information Science from the University of Salamanca (USAL).

Experience
The underlying theme of his trajectory has been to deepen the understanding of scientific knowledge generation processes and innovation, which he has addressed through different perspectives and research methods, including social networks, scientometrics, econometrics, and survey research. His work has been published in journals such as Research Policy, JASIST, PLOS ONE Journal of Informetrics, and Research Evaluation, among others. He serves as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and is Editorial Board member of Revista Española de Documentación Científica.

Previously, Adrián was a Postdoctoral Researcher at INGENIO under highly competitive Spanish programmes: JIN projects, Juan de la Cierva Incorporación and Juan de la Cierva Formación. He enjoyed a PhD fellowship (JAE predoc) at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) at CSIC in Madrid, where he conducted his doctoral research under the guidance of Professor María Bordons (2011-15). He became interested in quantitative science studies working as a Research Assistant at the Department of Statistics at the University of Salamanca (2009-11). In between academic positions, he worked at the Office for General Statistics and Studies, an agency under the Spanish Ministry of Education (2016-17). He has been a visiting scholar at CWTS at Leiden University, Dalhousie University, Imperial College Business School, and the University of Copenhagen.

Areas of interest
Social networks, science studies, scientometrics, medical innovation, science policy, sociology of science, knowledge co-creation, science-society interactions, science communication.