“Complex systems approaches have much to offer policymakers and can give solutions to critical challenges. I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this field and hope it inspires deep collaborations across disciplines to tackle pressing global issues,” says Del Rio-Chanona. From June 2021 to October 2023, Del Rio-Chanona worked at the Complexity Science Hub as a postdoctoral fellow of the James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF). She’s now an assistant professor at University College London and an associate researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.  

A significant aspect of her work has been her development of data-driven approaches and agent-based models (ABMs), which have proven effective in forecasting economic impacts, such as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK economy. These models simulate the actions and interactions of individual agents, such as workers and companies, to understand the broader economic outcomes.