Marcel Bartumeu Ramentol

Marcel Bartumeu Ramentol is an undergraduate researcher with the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab, studying technological entrepreneurship at Babson College alongside a Certificate in Engineering at Olin College. His connection to City Science began at age 10, when the group deployed its TerMITes sensor network at his school in Andorra. His research focuses on synthetic populations and humanized agent-based simulation: building populations of agents with realistic profiles, households, and behavior from public data, so that planners can see how policies play out across real people rather than averages.

His main project is the Andorra Scenario and Policy Engine, developed with Andorra Recerca i Innovació and public-sector partners. It pairs a calibrated national scenario model with a synthetic population of roughly 90,000 agents and is being validated against mobile network data. The framework was published in Urban Science (2026), and he is now extending the approach to Concepción, Chile. His broader interests sit at the intersection of urban systems, interactive visualization, and design-led tools for policy, shaped by a background in engineering, industrial design, and founding ventures since age 15.