Curriculum Vitae

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Adam Hardaker

m.a.hardaker@proton.me Kassel, Germany

RESEARCH FOCUS

Causal Machine Learning (Double/Debiased Machine Learning), Bibliometrics, Economics of Innovation and Higher Education, Academic Mobility

PUBLICATIONS

No evidence that non-incentivized behavioral interventions effectively mitigate climate change after adjusting for publication bias
Hardaker, A., Asanov, I., Bartoš, F., & Bruns, S. B. PNAS Nexus, 2026; https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag150

PRESENTATIONS

  • 06/2025 2025 Reading Group in Innovation Studies (REGIS), Bordeaux
  • 09/2025 10th Summer School on Data and Algorithms for ST&I Studies, KU Leuven
  • 11/2025 Causal Data Science Meeting, Copenhagen Business School
  • 06/2026 DRUID26 Conference, Copenhagen Business School

EMPLOYMENT

University of Kassel
Doctoral Researcher | May 2025 - Present | Kassel, Germany

  • Conduct research on academic labor markets, international mobility, and higher education systems using large-scale linked datasets.
  • Built an end‑to‑end, modular R pipeline to harmonize and link 1996–2025 academic rosters with multi‑country thesis datasets, delivering a single longitudinal entity store.
  • Designed a scalable AI/ML entity‑resolution pipeline to create longitudinal academic record data from complex 1M+ observation data sources.
  • Implemented university name resolution with per‑country rules plus ROR references; produced unmatched reports and achieved high institution coverage across 1M+ EDT records in 8+ countries.
  • Delivered QA/ops tooling: scraping + ingestion jobs, 5 Shiny applications for hand-labelling, linkage-review, visualisation, data coverage, and model evaluation.

IOTA Foundation
Research Analyst & Business Developer | Feb 2022 - Jul 2023 | Berlin, Germany

  • Spearheaded ecosystem growth initiatives, onboarding 30+ projects to a distributed ledger platform.
  • Created and led “Touchpoint”, a global program supporting startups in decentralized technology.
  • Managed 70+ strategic relationships across exchanges, investors, and technology partners, driving 40% ecosystem growth.
  • Conducted market research and operational analysis to support growth and product strategy.
  • Presented on distributed systems and emerging financial technologies at international conferences.

U.S. Army
Aviation Maintenance Officer & UH-60A/L Blackhawk Pilot | Dec 2010 - Jun 2018 | South Korea, Europe, USA

  • Led operations, logistics, and training functions across aviation and maintenance organizations.
  • Managed multinational military units of up to 200 personnel in high-responsibility operational environments.
  • Directed aviation maintenance and readiness workflows supporting fleets of up to 100 aircraft.
  • Planned and executed training programs, operational reporting, and mission coordination under time-sensitive conditions.
  • Maintained a spotless safety record while executing 30+ high-priority missions.

EDUCATION

University of Kassel
Master of Science; Economic Behavior and Governance | Mar 2025 | Kassel, Germany

  • GPA: 4.0 (1.2 German scale); Thesis: Leveraging Double/Debiased Machine Learning to Improve Meta-Analyses

Bard College Berlin
Bachelor of Arts; Economics, Politics, and Social Thought | May 2022 | Berlin, Germany

  • Awards: DAAD Prize, Best Thesis Prize; GPA: 4.0 (1.0 German scale)

University of Florida
Bachelor of Science; Agriculture Operations Management | Dec 2010 | Gainesville, Florida, USA

OTHER

  • Technical Skills: R, Python, SQL, FastAPI, Git, Stata, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Statistical Modelling
  • Languages: English (Native), German (B2)
  • Leadership: President of Rugby Cassel (operations, recruitment, web development)
  • Independent Project: Founder & developer of MeetSpace, an event aggregation platform for scalable local discovery. Developed backend with Python, FastAPI & SQLite.