Staff Profile:Sandra Vinciguerra

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Sandra Vinciguerra

Position / Job Title:

Research Associate

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Affiliations:

GaWC - Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Loughborough University.

Qualifications:

MSc in Statistical and Economic Sciences, Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Italy

Profile:

Sandra Vinciguerra is a Research Associate in the School of Real Estate & Planning, working on a project funded by ESPON. Her focus is on the analysis of Global Real Estate deals and GaWC connectivity data, in order to explain the position of European cities and their connections in both networks.

Previously, Sandra was a research associate at Loughborough University working with Kathy Pain, Peter Taylor and Michael Hoyler on a project funded by ESRC "Benchmarking the World City Network: City Connectivities on the Eve of the Current Financial Crisis"; she was studying the GaWC connectivity data under a different perspective using Social Network Analysis.

Publications:

Vinciguerra, S., Frenken, K., Hoekman, J. & Oort, F.G. van (2011), "European infrastructure networks and regional innovation in science-based technologies", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 20(5), 517-537.

Vinciguerra, S., Frenken, K. & Valente, M. (2010). "The geography of internet infrastructure: an evolutionary simulation approach based on preferential attachment", Urban Studies, 47(9), 1969-1984.

Vinciguerra S., Taylor P. J., Hoyler M., Pain K., (2010), "Contemporary Mappa Mundi: American exceptionalism in the world city network" Environment and Planning A, 42(6), 1271 - 1272

Reggiani A. and Vinciguerra S., 2007, "Network Connectivity Models: An Overview and Empirical Applications", in T. Friesz (ed.), Network Science, Nonlinear Science and Infrastructure Systems, 147-165, Springer

Current Research Projects:

TIGER project (Territorial Impact of Globalization for Europe and its Regions) funded by ESPON (European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion) working for the UK group together with Prof. Kathy Pain, Prof. Colin Lizieri, Prof. Peter Taylor and Michael Hoyler.

Research Interests:

Social Network Analysis as a method and its applications to Advanced Producer Services sectors, Transportation networks (such as Airline networks, passengers' flows, fibre-optic networks), networks of inventors through patent applications, networks of scientists through paper publications.