Laura de Dominicis is economic analyst at the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission, where she is responsible for carrying out quantitative analyses on various aspects linked to the economic development of EU regions and cities. More recently, her research has focused on the analysis of the so-called “geography of discontent” and on subjective well-being in European cities.
Previously, she has worked as an economic analyst in the European Commission at the Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs and at the EC Joint Research Centre in Seville, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Spatial Economics of the VU University Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Economics and has published several papers in academic journals, mainly on the determinants of regional economic growth.