Giovanni Abramo

Giovanni Abramo holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees respectively in engineering from the University of Rome “Sapienza” in Italy, and in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. He is acting director of the Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science (IASI) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR); founder of the IASI Laboratory for Studies in Research Evaluation (https://sites.google.com/view/laboratoriortt); and founder and president of the CNR spin-off company “Research Value”. He is also Honorary Professor at Waikato Management School, the University of Waikato, New Zealand; and Adjunct Professor of Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He has acted as a consultant to the European Commission, the United Nations, and a number of national and local government administrations and multinational corporations. His research interests focus on quantitative studies of science, with concentration in evaluative scientometrics aimed at informing research management and policy.