Ganguli Delivers Keynote Address on Science During Wartime

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Ina Ganguli, professor of economics and director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute, recently presented the keynote address at the sixth Research on Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship Workshop (RISE) in Munich, Germany. 

Ganguli’s talk, “Scientists in the Crosshairs: Impacts of War, Crisis, and Conflict on Ukrainian Science,” drew from a paper published last spring chronicling the loss of human capital, the destruction of physical capital and reductions in international scientific cooperation in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded in February 2022. The paper notes that while damage to physical infrastructure caused by the invasion can be remedied relatively easily, it is the loss of human capital that has largely driven the decline in Ukrainian research output and threatens to affect scientific productivity long after the fighting ends. Ganguli and co-author Fabian Waldinger, an economist at the University of Munich, emphasize that post-war reconstruction efforts must focus on supporting scientists and resuming their research.

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