Diego Santamaría is a visiting researcher at LABSS-CNR. He is PhD candidate in Economics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and works at Institute of Public Goods and Policies from Spanish National Council for Research (IPP-CSIC), granted by a FPU fellowship by the Spanish Ministry for Universities. He is economist with MSc degree at Internacional Economics.

His research combines both experimental and observational methodologies to investigate social preferences as drivers of policies. Inequality acceptability, expectations about others’ behaviour, mental health or affective polarisation are some topics included in his research agenda.