Silvia Leoni, Assistant Professor, University of Florence.
Silvia Leoni is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Public Economics at the Department of Economics and i Management of the University of Florence. Her primary line of research investigates university enrollment choices and the role of social influence, employing agent-based simulations to analyze educational systems across Europe. Beyond education, she applies computational simulations to address contemporary challenges in environmental economics, lobbying dynamics, and public health systems.
She is the P.I. of the project AMUSED (Agent-Based Modelling of University Enrollment Decisions), funded by a FIS (Fondo Italiano per la Scienza) Starting Grant. Her research has been published in recognized peer-reviewed journals, including Computational Economics, Research in Higher Education, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Human Resource Management Review, and Applied Network Science. Additionally, she is a member of NetBHEELab (Network, Behavioral, Heterogeneity and Evolution in Economics).
Silvia holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods for Economic Policy from the University of Macerata. Before joining the University of Florence, she held academic and research positions at Universitas Mercatorum, Maastricht University, and the University of Leicester.

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 Full Professor in Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) and Distinguished Professor at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón de la Plana, Spain).
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.

Federico Giri is Associate 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.