Dr. Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood is a professional consultant and researcher with academic and industrial experience in mobile technology research, business models analysis, telecommunications strategy, mobile payments, big data in the UK, the Netherlands and in multidisciplinary projects at EU/International level (USA, Latin America and Asia) in socio technical areas. Industry qualified engineer (CCNP, CCNA, MSc(Eng), BSc) with a telecoms and Internet background (networking, economic models and IP). She currently is an adjunct Professor at Florida International University (FIU,USA). In the past she has been a Visiting Scholar at FIU, Adjunct Professor at the University of Syracuse (NY, USA), Associated research fellow at Oxford Brookes University (UK) and Research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE, UK). She obtained her PhD at the Information Systems at the Department of Management at the LSE. Specialization Mobile technology, distributed working practices and organizational change.

Between 2018-2019 she was the holder of the Catedra Telefonica IBEI Research Fellowship (Barcelona, Spain). She has published a number of book chapters and in top journals such as MISQ, Journal of Information Policy, etc. She actively engages in activities related to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Internet Society (UK chapter), BCS (British Computer Society) and other social blogs and media (both academic and business related such as the Brookings Institute). She teaches/has taught courses on Databases (SQL and NOSQL, Python Programming Language, Information Systems Strategy, Distributed management Systems (cloud computing), Cloud Security, ERP for the Enterprise and Design of MIS systems.

Research Projects completed:

Research Projects completed:

2019  Machine Learning and Data Science mini masters (ongoing).

2018 Studies of Latin American Digital Balance and Cloud emergent markets - IBEI and Telefonica (Spain)

2016-2017 Economics of Operative Systems - Commissioned work by Alphabet Inc.

2015-2016 Zero Rating Studies - Research sponsored by the Danish Research Council and Strand Consultancy.

2013-2014 - Big Data financial services - Research Project sponsored by the UK research Council (grant)

2013 - Assessing the long-term sustainability of the mobile Internet - Research Project sponsored by the UK research Council (grant)

2013-2014- Sustainability in 4G networks - A research project for Telefonica-02 UK and LSE 

2011 - 2013 - ETNO reports (European Telecommunications network of operators) commissioned to the LSE - direct input to BEREC and EU 

2011-2010 - Internet Innovation and Value Network Analysis - A research project between the LSE IS group and Telenor (Norway) in collaboration with the University of Oslo.

2010-2011 - Near Field Communications and privacy study - Research Project for Nokia and LSE

2008-2013 - User Interactions for Breakthrough Services on mobile applications - Research Project sponsored by the UK research Council (grant) in collaboration with three other UK universities and MVCE (international consortium telecom companies)

2009-2010 - FLEXIBLE NETWORKS- Research Project sponsored by the UK research Council (grant) in collaboration with three other UK universities and MVCE (international consortium telecom companies)

2006-2008 - BIONETS (Bio-Inspired Service Evolution for the Pervasive Age) - Research project sponsored by EU Frame 7 (research) in collaboration with a consortium of European universities and the private sector (Nokia, Telecom Italia, etc) 

2005-2007 - DBE (Digital Business Ecosystem) - Research project sponsored by EU Frame 7 (research) in collaboration with a consortium of European universities and the private sector (IBM, Sun Microsystems, Techideas, etc)

Areas of Research Interest:

telecom policy, internet economy, digital ecosystems, mobile studies: business models and control points, near field communications, digital infrastructures, business models alternative business models, m-money, community currencies and economics of sharing, new media studies, digital ecosystems, behaviour studies, telecommunications, big data and open data