Gabriel A. Pierzynski's research interest centre around Computational Social Science (CSS), economic geography, and IR Theory. He holds a MSc from the London School of Economics and has been published in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. He is currently working under Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis on a project investigating ‘regional growth accelerations’ in Europe, and the impact of industrial policy on green investments. He uses python and big data to investigate socio-economic impacts of policy.