Ljubica Nedelkoska

Join us at the Complexity Science Hub for a public discussion on Monday, May 4, at 17:00. Many early-career researchers want their work to make a difference in the world. But how? Is engaging with policy still a promising career path, and if so, how does one go about it? How can policymakers facilitate such paths? These questions matter especially in complexity science, where mathematical models and data are brought to bear on social phenomena, connecting disciplines along the way. In a...

Source: Wix Media Library How should we decide how much AI and what kind of AI to encourage in university classrooms? A useful starting point might be distinguishing between fundamental and higher-order skills , and between learning and performing . At work, I’m seeing the pace of AI advancement exhaust some of the best lecturers I know. To do it right by their students, they keep learning, keep adjusting, keep rewriting syllabi and assessments to match a moving target. At home, my...

Imagine being commissioned to produce a regional economic analysis–municipal growth diagnostic–only to learn that the administrative microdata critical for your analysis is unavailable. This was the situation in which my team and I found ourselves a few months back. If the year was 2015, our team of analysts would have been doomed to fail. Luckily, it was 2025. Our objective was to conduct a municipal growth diagnostic for a mid-sized town in Albania. Pioneered by the Growth Lab at Harvard...