Department: APPLIED ECONOM

Faculty: ECONOMICS

Area: Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics

Research group: Public Opinion and Elections

Research group: Quantitative methods for measuring culture and education

Email: virgilio.perez@uv.es

Doctor by the Universitat de València with the thesis Aproximaciones metodológicas para la obtención de bases de datos de calidad. Instrumentos de análisis del cambio económico y social 2023. Supervised by Dr. Cristina Aybar Arias, Dr. José Manuel Pavía Miralles.

Graduated in Business Administration and Management, master's degree in Big Data and Business Intelligence and doctor in Industrial Economics from the University of Valencia. In his doctoral thesis he focused on the generation of tools and procedures to build quality datasets. He has participated in various research projects related to the generation of quality data and the proposal of socioeconomic indicators. Some examples are: “Understanding individual behavior in a dynamic context: Information, Culture and Institutions” (PID2021-128228NB-I00IP), funded by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation or “Information, context, characteristics and preferences: mediators of economic change And social. Create effective institutions and committed societies” (AICO/2021/257), funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana. As a member of the Research Group on Electoral Processes and Public Opinion (GIPEyOP) he has participated in the development of the SEA Database, the most complete database on electoral results in Spain. As director of the Research Group "Defense Economics, Cybersecurity and Protection", he has been the Principal Investigator of the project “A year of war in Ukraine: Spaniards' assessment of the conflict and its involvement in security and the economy”, funded by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS). It has participated in several contracts and transfer agreements, among which the service of identification and analysis of indicators for monitoring the economy of the Valencian Community stands out or the development of a system of functional indicators aimed at collecting, analyzing and transmitting information on the dynamics of culture at the local level.