Ivan Savin is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics at ESCP Business School, Madrid campus. Prior joining ESCP, Ivan served as a postdoctoral research fellow within the ERC project EVOCLIM at ICTA-UAB between 2018 and 2023. Before that, he served within the KIT-BETA project devoted to general purpose technologies, creativity and sustainability (2015-2018) and was a postdoc for four years at the Friedrich Schiller University in the Graduate College "The Economics of Innovative Change" (2011-2015). Ivan received his PhD from the Department of Economics of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen in 2011. In 2017 he habilitated at KIT with the thesis titled "Applications of Evolutionary Optimization and Modelling in Economics".
Ivan’s research interests include economics of innovation, environmental economics, climate policy, complex systems, and evolutionary economics.