Caterina Calsamiglia is an Associate Professor at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, a research fellow of the newborn MOVE, and an affiliated professor of the Barcelona GSE. Her work focuses on studying the economic implications of social justice for public policy design. She's studied how the provision of equality of opportunity can be decentralized through a set of policies; she's worked on the efficiency and fairness of different school choice mechanisms; she's also studied the effects of implementing affirmative action in discriminated tournaments. Her work includes theoretical, empirical and experimental analysis.

Calsamiglia received her B.A. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) in 1999 and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University in 2002, 2003, and 2005 respectively.