Dr. Juan Pardo Guerra

Biography

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute and co-founder of the Computational Social Science program. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program. His research focuses on markets, location, and contemporary societies with an emphasis on finance, knowledge, and organizations. His book 'Automating Finance: Infrastructures, Engineers Making Electronic Markets' explores the organizational and political tensions that have shaped the development of key infrastructures in British and American stock markets amid the rise of automated trading in the late 20th century. He analyzes how telecommunications experts have created new niches within stock exchanges, revealing how technical workers have transformed devices, cultures, and organizations, enabling the shift from trading floors to wholly electronic exchanges. Another of his significant works, 'Quantified Scholar: Research Evaluations Transformed British Social Sciences,' investigates the impact of market-like interventions on quality assessment in British academia since the 1980s. Pardo-Guerra has trained in physics at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh, with academic positions held at the London School of Economics, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, and the University of California San Diego.

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