Speakers

Tomaso ASTE is professor of complexity science at UCL Computer Science Department. A trained Physicist, has substantially contributed to research in complex systems modeling and complex data analytics. He is an expert in the application of Blockchain Technologies to domains beyond digital currencies. He is Scientific Director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies; Head of the Financial Computing and Analytics Group; Programme Director of the MSc in Financial Risk Management; Vice-Director of the Centre for doctoral Training in Financial Computing & Analytics; Member of the Board of the ESRC LSE-UCL Systemic Risk Centre. Prior to UCL he hold positions in UK and Australia.

Marco BARDOSCIA is a theoretical physicist. He got his Ph.D. at the University of Bari with a thesis on applications of statistical physics to operational risks. He is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate at the London Institute of Mathematics and he previously was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Abdus Salam Centre for International Physics (ICTP). His research activity is focused on interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics, with a special focus on socio-economic systems and computational problems.

Paolo BARUCCA is a postdoctoral researcher in Finance at the University of Zurich, now visiting in London at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS). He earned his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from Sapienza University with a thesis on disordered systems under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Parisi.

He is currently investigating systemic risk in financial networks utilising tools from graph theory, random matrix theory, stochastic analysis, and statistical physics. He attempts to provide general, informative, and reliable results and indicators for quantifying systemic risk in networks, predicting financial instability, and designing more sustainable financial policies and markets.

Stefano BATTISTON is SNF Professor at the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich. His work applies the complex networks approach both to the empirical analysis of large economic networks and the modelling of their dynamics. Since several years, his main interests have been financial contagion, default cascades, and propagation of financial distress, where he combines the insights from the statistical mechanics of networks with the analysis of economic incentives. From 2015 he also coordinates the FET project DOLFINS that investigates how to better channel finance towards sustainable economy in a networked economy. Within the Financial Stability Program directed by the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and funded by the Institute of New Economic Thinking, Stefano Battiston coordinates the Working Group on Financial Networks. Department of Banking at University of Zurich

Fabio CACCIOLI is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously a research associate at the University of Cambridge, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, US). Fabio holds a PhD in Statistical Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy).

Guido CALDARELLI isl professor in Theoretical Physics at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. Caldarelli received his Ph.D. from SISSA, after which he was a postdoc in the Department of Physics and School of Biology, University of Manchester. He then worked at the TCM Group, University of Cambridge. He returned to Italy as a lecturer at National Institute for Condensed Matter (INFM) and later as Primo Ricercatore in the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council of Italy. In this period he was also the coordinator of the Networks subproject, part of the Complexity Project, for the Fermi Centre. He also spent some terms at University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Viktoria CHICK is a Post Keynesian economist who is best known for her contributions to the understanding of Keynes's General Theory and to the establishment of Post Keynesian economics in the UK and elsewher

Giulio CIMINI is Assistant Professor at IMT Lucca (Italy). His main expertise includes statistical physics, probability theory and data analysis, and his work focuses mainly on interdisciplinary application of physics in complex systems of social, biological, economic and financial nature. His current research is carried on in collaboration with researchers from national central banks and other central counterparty institutions. He obtained BSc and MS in physics at “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy), and got the PhD degree in theoretical and interdisciplinary physics at University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Tiziana DI MATTEO is Professor of Econophysics. A trained physicist, she took her degree and PhD from the University of Salerno in Italy before assuming research roles at universities in Australia and Britain. She works in the department of Mathematics at King’s College London in Econophysics, complex networks and Data science. She has authored over 90 papers and gave invited and keynote talks at major international conferences in the US, across Europe and Asia, making her one of the world’s leaders in this field. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Network Theory in Finance, Editor of the European Physical Journal B and Guest Editor of several other volumes. She has been consultant for the Financial Services Authority and several hedge funds.

Luca FANTACCI Luca Fantacci teaches international economics and the history of financial crises at Bocconi University in Milan. His research focuses on the history of financial systems and of economic thought. Inspired by Keynes’s ideas, Fantacci is working on clearing schemes, both at European and at local level, aimed at facilitating what the crisis has shown to be systemically obstructed: the payment of debts and the circulation of money. He is the co-editor of Money and Calculation (Palgrave 2010) and the author, together with Massimo Amato, of The End of Finance (Polity 2011) and Saving the Market from Capitalism (Polity 2014).

Andrea GABRIELLI PhD, is a theoretical physicist. In recent years he collaborated to the development of the theory of EconomicComplexity and studied the problem of reconstruction of complex networks from partial information which is of capital importance mainly in finance. He has a solid expertise in statistical physics of complex systems, stochastic processes and complex network theory. He is currently a researcher at CNR and Visiting Professor at Institute for Advanced Studies (Lucca, Italy), and at the Physics Department of the Boston University (MA, USA). He is the author of around 100 scientific publications on peer reviewing international journals and of one scientific book of statistical physics published by Springer (2004).

Amin HAAS focus is on financial markets and their role for sustaining the economy, the society, and the environment. This includes the stability of the financial system itself, i.e. its resilience concerning endogenous dynamics, and exogenous shocks. Moreover, he is interested in how to deal with big uncertainties that interact in a synergistic way. This is what Integrated Risk Governance is basically about. I am, for example, contributing innovative Bayesian approaches for dealing with large-scale uncertainties.

Carlo JAEGER is an economist working on global systems, in particular on the role of financial markets in addressing – or exacerbating – the problem of climate change. He is professor at Potsdam University in Germany and at Beijing Normal University in China. He is chair of the Global Climate Forum and until March 2012 department head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

John KAY is one of Britain’s leading economists; His interests focus on the relationships between economics and business. His career has spanned academic work and think tanks, business schools, company directorships, consultancies and investment companies.

Giulia IORI Professor of Economics at City University. Her research work has covered different areas in physics, applied mathematics, biology, finance and economics. Current research interests include: Agent based models of market microstructure, credit risk, systemic risk, operational risk; complex economic networks; high-frequency financial time series analysis; derivatives pricing and hedging. She has authored several peer-reviewed papers in leading journals in Physics and Finance/Economics. Her research has been funded by the EPSRC, the ECB (Lamfalussy Fellowship), the EC and the ESF.

Vito LATORA After graduating, Vito Latora received a PhD in Physics at "University of Catania (Italy), with a thesis in the field of Theoretical Nuclear Physics entitled Multifragmentation, phase transitions and critical chaos in hot nuclei He conducted postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology" After his postdoctoral period, he joined the department of Physics of the University of Catania as an assistant professor in 2002. Since 2012, Vito Latora is Full Professor in Applied Mathematics (Chair in Complex Systems) at the Queen Mary University of London"

Antoine MANDEL is associate professor of applied mathematics at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a research fellow at the Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne. He holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from University Panthéon-Sorbonne and worked for two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate impact research. His research focuses on dynamic economic modeling and its applications to environmental policy. His work has been applied to the assessment of green growth prospects in Europe, climate finance, or the analysis of innovative regions. He has participated in a number of transdisciplinary research projects funded by the European Union and is a grantee of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Francesca MEDDA

is a Professor in Applied Economics and Finance at the University College London. From 2010 she is the Director of the UCL QASER (Quantitative and Applied Spatial Economics Research) Laboratory. Since 2012 she serves as economic adviser to the UK Ministry of Environment and Agriculture (Defra) and in 2014 at the Ministry of Finance (Her Majesty’s Treasury). She is Vice-President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, House of Commons, UK and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.>Her research focuses on critical and social infrastructure investments, financial innovation and new technologies, supply chain and production efficiency analysis, land value finance, urban investments (smart cities).

Tiziano SQUARTINI is a physicist, working from November 2015 as an Assistant Professor at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, in Lucca (within the NETWORKS Research Unit). He was born in 1983 in Siena, where he graduated in 2008 with a Master's Degree in Physics and defended his PhD thesis ("Information-theoretic approach to the analysis of complex networks") in 2011. During the biennium 2012-2013 he was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Lorentz-Institute for Theoretical Physics (Leiden, NL) and later in CNR-ISC Rome. His research activity focuses on complex networks theory, both on the development of novel theoretical models and on their application.

Andreas JOSEPH Andreas graduated from the University of Munich in 2011, specialising in theoretical physics. In 2014, Andreas obtained his PhD from City University of Hong Kong (Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks). His research is dedicated to integrating novel methods like network theory, non-linear dynamics, agent-based modelling and computational methods and data analytics into macroeconomics and policy analysis. Research interests: micro-to-macro, macro-finance, financial stability, international trade and macroeconomic theory and history.

Geoff TILY joined CITYPERC in July 2013. He has been a member of the Government Statistical Service since 1989 and the Government Economics Service since 2006. His MSc was in Economics at University College London and he did a PhD under the supervision of Victoria Chick.

Yu YONGDING a former president of the China Society of World Economics and director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, served on the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China from 2004 to 2006. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee of National Planning of the Commission of National Development and Reform of the PR