Marcel Bartumeu Ramentol
- City Science
Marcel Bartumeu Ramentol is a researcher in the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. He builds simulated societies: synthetic populations of people with homes, families, jobs and daily routines, and the scenario and policy engines that put them to work. The goal is simple: let governments try a decision on a simulated population before it reaches a real one.
His connection to City Science goes back to age 10, when the group installed its TerMITes sensors at his school in Andorra. Today he works with public-sector partners to build these models from public data, test them against reality, and turn them into physical tools that people can gather around and use. His work has been published in Urban Science.
He studies technological entrepreneurship at Babson College and engineering at Olin College, and has been starting companies since he was 15.