Eugenio Proto is Alec Cairncross Professor of Applied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, and Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA, CESifo. He earned his PhD in Economics at ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles in 2004. Previously he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.

Eugenio's recent research interests are on Behavioural and Experimental Economics, with focus on Intelligence, Personality and Psychological wellbeing. He has published in leading general economic journals, like the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics Studies and in leading general scientific journals like the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science and Nature Human Behaviour. His work has been featured in several main international newspapers and magazines. He is currently academic editor of PLOSONE and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

He will be delivering an online seminar titled ‘Mental Health Deterioration among different groups and individuals during the pandemic’. The seminar will focus on three published papers on the topic:

1. Proto, E., & Zhang, A. (2021). Covid-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, September 14, 2021 118 (37) e2109282118, link to the full PDF
2. Proto, E. & Quintana-Domeque, C. (2021). COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK, PLoS ONE 16(1)
3. Quintana-Domeque, C., Lee, I., Zhang, A., Proto, E., Battisti, M., & Ho, A. (2021). Anxiety and Depression among Medical Doctors in Catalonia, Italy, and the UK during the COVID-19 Pandemic, PLoS ONE

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