Sebastian Poledna, leader of the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna.
His scientific interests include new approaches to macroeconomics, the impact of climate change on socioeconomic systems, the systemic risk of various complex systems, and financial regulation. He holds double degrees in physics (2005-2011) and in economics and business administration (1999-2003), and has worked as a practitioner in risk management at one of the largest European banks for almost a decade (2007-2015). He obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Vienna in 2016. Poledna first joined IIASA as a research scholar in the former IIASA Advanced Systems Analysis and Risk and Resilience programs in 2015. In January 2021, he was appointed research group leader of the EM Research Group. The EM Research Group currently has 35+ scientists whose aim is to produce methodological advances that will underpin future IIASA research.

Mauro Gallegati, Full Professor, Università Politecnica delle Marche.
After having earned his PhD in Economics in 1989 at Marche Polytechnic University with a thesis on financial fragility under the supervision of Hyman Minsky, he has held visiting positions, both as a scholar and as a professor at Washington University - St. Louis, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Santa Fe Institute, Brookings Institution, University of Technology, Sydney, Kyoto University, ETH. He has been the President of the ESHIA Society (Economic science with heterogeneous interacting agents). His research activity is mainly centered on complexity economics. Within this field of research he has published scientific works with Bruce Greenwald, Joseph Stiglitz, Domenico Delli Gatti. With Joseph Stiglitz, Gallegati has developed a theory of asymmetric information with heterogeneous agents and its applications.

Alberto Russo is a Senior Distinguished Researcher (Beatriz Galindo program) at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón de la Plana, Spain) and Associate Professor in Economics (on leave) at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy). His main research interests are agent-based modelling and complexity economics, macroeconomics with heterogeneous interacting agents, inequality, financial fragility, experimental economics. He published in recognized journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Research Policy, The World Economy. He is co-editor of three books on agent-based modelling in economics published by Cambridge University Press, Elsevier and Springer. He served as guest editor for Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Economics E-Journal. He was involved in various national-level and European research projects. He has also been a member of the INET task force on macroeconomic externalities led by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Alessandro Caiani, Associate Professor at the University School for Advanced Studies Pavia (IUSS).
Alessandro has been a Post-Doc at Università Politecnica delle Marche and Researcher (RTD-A) at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, where he taught Economic Policy. His main research interests are in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Economic Simulation. He is the scientific coordinator of the Evolutionary Economic Simulation research area of the EAEPE. Alessandro taught courses and labs on macroeconomic AB-SFC Modeling in several PhD Programs, international Summer Schools and workshops. He is editor of the textbook "Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents: a Practical Guide to Agent-Based Modeling" (Springer eds.). With Dr. Antoine Godin (AFD), he is the developer of the JMAB (Java Macro Agent Based) Simulation Tool kit. His articles have been published on several international peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization.

Eugenio Caverzasi, Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria and former Post-Doc at Università Politecnica delle Marche. Eugenio has held visiting positions at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), University of Limerick, and University of Greenwich. His main research interests are Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro Finance, and Macroeconomic Modelling, more specifically he focused on financialization and on the macroeconomic impacts of financial evolution. He has published on several international peer-reviewed journals, such Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Industrial and Corporate Change, and the Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization. Currently Eugenio teaches a course in Macroeconomics and an introductory PhD course in AB-SFC modelling at the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria.

Ermanno Catullo is a tenure track assistant professor at the Università di Teramo.
He received his PhD on agent-based economics from the University of Turin under the supervision of prof. Pietro Terna. Then, he has been a post-doc at UNIVPM where he worked on macroeconomic agent-based models, credit networks and open-economy macroeconomics. He still works on such topics and many others based on an agent-based modelling approach to economics and policy analysis.

Federico Giri is a tenure track assistant professor at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
His main research interests are in Macroeconomics, monetary policy and computational methods for macroeconomics using both DSGE and ABM models. His articles have been published on several international peer reviewed journal such as the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Macroeconomic Dynamics. Federico is lecturer in Macroeconomics and has been teaching courses on Computational Methods in various PhD and Master courses.

Samantha Coccia, 3rd year PhD student in Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
She spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Bamberg. She works on the transmission channels of monetary policy and inflation dynamics due to energy shocks based on a macroeconomic ABM approach.

Alessandro Agnesi, 2nd year PhD student at the Università Politecnica delle Marche.
He is working on inflation dynamics and distribution within a macro ABM framework. He is a member of the YSI/INET Working Group on Keynesian Economics.

Jacopo di Domenico, Post-Doc at the University of Macerata.
He worked on macro ABM, distribution and structural dynamics in his PhD dissertation discussed at the Università Politecnica delle Marche. He has been visiting scholar at the Universitat Jaume I and joined numerous conferences and summer schools immerged in plural environments. Jacopo's research interests are economic growth, economic development, technological change, stagnation, and income inequality, and, of course, modelling macroeconomic phenomena with ABMs.