nireEHU IGOR CALZADA MUGICA
- Knowledge area
- Physical Chemistry
- Department
- Contemporary History
- Centre
- Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences
- Electronic mail
- igor.calzada@ehu.eus
Dr Igor Calzada is Principal Investigator/Research Fellow/Associate Professor at Ikerbasque, University of the Basque Country, and Cardiff University (WISERD – Civil Society ESRC) since 2021 in the field of Digital Citizenship by particularly addressing key digital, urban, and technopolitical challenges from the citizenship perspective. He has published two books: Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes (Emerald, 2022) and Smart City Citizenship (Elsevier, 2021). He has worked for more than 20 years as Senior Researcher/Scientist/Advisor in Digital Tranformations, Smart Cities, and Digital Rights by employing Action Research at the University of Oxford (Future of Cities and Urban Transformations ESRC) (2012-21), European Commission H2020 and DG-JRC (2020-21), Digital Economy Unit (Digitranscope and AIWatch), and United Nations – UN-Habitat (2021) (People-Centered Smart Cities Programme), among other academic/policy institutions. He has been awarded Fulbright Scholar 2022-2023 by the US-UK Fulbright Commission in California collaborating with Stanford University around Data Cooperatives, AI, and DAOs. He has been included in the 100 Most Influential Academics for Government by Apolitical and is part of the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights (CCDR) – Expert Group. His research has been funded by Fulbright, ESRC, Learned Society of Wales, H2020, JRC, VUB, Marie Curie, RSA, and Ikerbasque.