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 Human Capital (CSHC), 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. He 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 ~ 16,000 life-time citations and an h-index of 57). 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 drivers of human-capital formation, utilizing economic principles and social-science genetics methods.  Dr. Galama is currently the Lead (jointly with von Hinke) of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN), Director of the CESR Center for the Study of Human Capital (CSHC), a Senior Economist at the University of Southern California's (USC) Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), an Associate Professor at both USC's and VU Amsterdam’s Economics Departments, and a Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

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

Senior Economist, USC Center for Economic and Social Research, 2013
Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 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