6.2017 - Present Ambizione Fellow. Chair of Innovation and IP Policy. EPFL
6.2015 - 5.2017 Postdoctoral Fellow. Chair of Innovation and IP Policy. EPFL
6.2015 - 12.2016 Visiting Professor. Laboratory of Innovation Management and Economics. IMT Lucca
6.2012 - 5.2015 Assistant Professor. Laboratory of Innovation Management and Economics. IMT Lucca
2007 - 2011 Ph.D. in Complexy Systems, University of Calgary
2004 - 2006 M.A. in Physics, Boston University
2000 - 2004 B.Sc. (Hns) in Physics, University of Manitoba
J.M. Vail, D. Schindel, A. Yang, O. Penner, R. Pandey, H. Jiang, M.A. Blanco, A. Costales, Q.C. Qiu, Y. Xu (2004) "Effect of dielectric polarization on the properties of charged point defects in insulating crystals: the nitrogen vacancy in AlN" Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 16(20)
A.M. Petersen, O. Penner, H.E. Stanley (2011) "Node similarity within subgraphs of protein interaction networks" Physica A. 387(14)
A.M. Petersen, O. Penner, H.E. Stanley (2011) "Methods for detrending success metrics to account for inflationary and deflationary factors" European Physical Journal B. 79(1)
O. Penner, P. Grassberger, M. Paczuski (2011) "Sequence alignment, mutual information, and dissimilarity measures for constructing phylogenies" PLoS One. 6(1)
A. Chessa, A. Morescalchi, F. Pammolli, O. Penner, A.M. Petersen, M. Riccaboni (2013) "Is Europe Evolving Toward an Integrated Research Area?" Science. 339
O. Penner, R.K. Pan, A.M. Petersen, K. Kaski, S. Fortunato (2013) "On the Predictability of Future Impact in Science" Scientific Reports. 3
D.E. Acuna, O. Penner, C.G. Orton (2013) "The future h‐index is an excellent way to predict scientistsˈ future impact" Medical Physics. 40(11)
A.M. Petersen, S. Fortunato, R.K. Pan, K. Kaski, O. Penner, A. Rungi, M. Riccaboni, H.E. Stanley, F. Pammolli (2014) "Reputation and impact in academic careers" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(43)
C. Schulz, A. Mazloumian, A.M. Petersen, O. Penner, D. Helbing (2014) "Exploiting citation networks for large-scale author name disambiguation" EPJ Data Science. 3(1)
A.M. Petersen, O. Penner (2014) "Inequality and cumulative advantage in science careers: a case study of high-impact journals" EPJ Data Science. 3(1)
A. Morescalchi, F. Pammolli, O. Penner, A.M. Petersen and M. Riccaboni (2015) "The evolution of networks of innovators within and across borders: Evidence from patent data" Research Policy. 44(3)
R. Catini, D. Karamshuk, O. Penner, M. Riccaboni (2015) "Identifying geographic clusters: A network analytics approach" Research Policy. 44(9)