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CESR Staff

CESR Staff

Titus Galama
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Alexandria Braboy
  • Rebecca Braganca
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Sandy Chien
  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Hunter Green
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Haomiao Jin
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Leah McConnell
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Shreemayi Samujjwala
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Alexander Young
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Titus Galama
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Alexandria Braboy
  • Rebecca Braganca
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Sandy Chien
  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Brian Finch
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Hunter Green
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Haomiao Jin
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Leah McConnell
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Shreemayi Samujjwala
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Alexander Young
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro

Titus Galama

Senior Economist, CESR; Director, Center for Study of Inequality
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VPD, Room 505G
213.821.2719
galama@usc.edu
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Biographical Sketch
Titus Galama, Ph.D., MBA, is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California's (USC) Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) and at USC's Economics Department, Director of the CESR Center for the Study of Health Inequality (CSHI), Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics (SBE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and  Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Titus is an award-winning astrophysicist who turned to business/management then policy analysis, economics and social-science genetics. Titus Galama was awarded an M.Sc. in Physics in 1995 (cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1999 (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, an MBA in 2003 from INSEAD, France / Singapore and a Ph.D. in Economics in 2011 from the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has been at the forefront of several breakthrough discoveries in astrophysics, two of which were considered the 5th and 10th most significant scientific discoveries (in all science fields) of 1997 and 1999, respectively, by Science magazine. After completion of his thesis in astrophysics he worked as a Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, U.S.A. He has authored six book chapters and 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications, many in top scientific journals (e.g., six papers [three first-author] in Nature). His publications are highly cited (with ~ 14,500 life-time citations and an h-index of ~ 55). Following his career in astrophysics, he obtained an MBA from INSEAD at the Singapore and French campuses, and subsequently joined L.E.K Consulting, a global strategy-consulting firm, as a Senior Consultant in the Los Angeles office. Titus joined the RAND Corporation in 2006, USC’s CESR in 2013 and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2018. In these positions his focus has been on understanding the substantial disparities in health by socioeconomic status, utilizing economic principles and social-science genetics methods.  Titus is Principal Investigator (PI) on a National Institute of Aging (NIA) research grant (R01 AG055654; jointly with Dr. Faul, $4.3 million), focussed on identifying modifiable aspects of gene-by-environment interplay in later-life cognitive decline (2017-2022). He is also PI on a personal grant (VIDI) of the Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO; ~ $1 million; 11/2018-10/2023) and on a recent high-priority R56 grant (NIH; $860,000), to study the role of genetics and its interaction with environments in risky health behaviors. He was PI on an NIA grant aimed at improving understanding of disparities in health between socioeconomic status groups (R01; $ 2,500,000; 2010) and recipient of an NIA Independent Scientist Award aimed at improving understanding of disparities in health between education groups (K02; $870,000; 2012).
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, 07/2011
M.B.A. Business, INSEAD Singapore/Paris, 07/2003
Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12/1999
M.S. Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12/1995
Employment
Senior Economist, USC Center for Economic and Social Research, 2013
Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 2012
Visiting Professor, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, 2012
Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 2006-2013
Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Europe, The Netherlands, 2006-2006
Senior Strategy Consultant, L.E.K. Consulting, Los Angeles, 2003-2005
Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1999-2002
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