Roberto Cruz Romero

Roberto Cruz Romero studied Arts and Graphic Design at the Universidad de Costa Rica, where he obtained his BA and Licentiate’s degreees (2007 – 2012). From 2011 to 2014 he completed his BA in Political Science at the same university. He worked as a research assistant and, later, as a research associate at the policy think tank PROSIC (Knowledge and Information Society Programme), where he also adviced the Knowledge Sharing Programme (KSP) oft he Korean Development Institute (KDI) on science and technology human resources. Roberto moved to Germany in 2018 to obtain his MA degree from the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2018 – 2020), which he focused on the empirical relation of transparency and economic performance. As of 2020 he is a doctoral candidate at the Universität Leipzig, further researching the institutional determinants of transparency in a comparative perspective. Since 2022 he joined the DZHW as a research associate in the indi:oa project, where he collaborates with the empirical evaluation of open access bibliometric data.