Siavash Farahbakhsh is a Senior Researcher at ILVO, specializing in Socio-Economic Modeling for the Circular Economy since October 2019. Additionally, Farahbakhsh serves as a Contract Lecturer at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, focusing on Agent-based Modelling and Network Thinking from March 2020 to September 2024. Farahbakhsh completed a PhD in Management and Economics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano between 2015 and 2019. Previous roles include various visiting researcher positions and scientific researcher positions at institutions such as the National Research Council of Italy, University of Southern Denmark, RWTH Aachen University, TU Chemnitz, and HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Farahbakhsh holds a Master of Science in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology.

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ILVO (Instituut voor Landbouw, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek)

Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) researches the entire food chain, from primary food production to food processing and also the social and economic aspects of agriculture and fisheries. ILVO is an independent governmental research institute, part of the Government of Flanders’ Agriculture and Fisheries Policy Area in Belgium. ILVO’s mission is to perform and coordinate policy-supportive scientific research and the associated public service with the goal of creating sustainable agriculture and fisheries from an economic, ecological and social perspective. ILVO research and its related services span the range from fundamental and applied crop and animal sciences to agricultural engineering, marine and fisheries research, food science, social science research and economics. Using research, ILVO strives to improve products and production methods, monitor and safeguard the quality and safety of end products, and to improve policy instruments with the aim of developing policy related to agriculture, rural areas, and fisheries. ILVO continually informs policymakers, the relevant industries, and the public about its research findings.


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Merelbeke, Belgium

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501-1,000

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