Lilit Popayan
Lilit Popoyan is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Business Analytics and Applied Economics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on policy-relevant quantitative analysis at the intersection of macroeconomic policy, financial regulation, financial stability, sustainable finance and climate change, production networks, and macroeconomic dynamics, using agent-based models and empirical methods.
She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Ecological Economics, Environmental Science & Policy, International Economics, and the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, among others.
Lilit is also an Associate Researcher at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and a Lecturer in Money and Banking for NYU's Study Abroad Programme in Florence. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.
Before joining Queen Mary, she was an Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Naples "Parthenope".
She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination and leads the "ABM and Networks" research stream at the Centre for Quantitative Methods (CQM) at QMUL. Additionally, she is a founding member of the ABM4Policy research group.

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.

Samantha Coccia, Post-doc 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.