Professor at the TIK Centre, University of Oslo. He has a PhD from the University of Oslo (2004) and a PhD from the University of Rome La Sapienza (2005). He has been Director of the TIK Centre between 2014 and 2022. His research is in the economics of innovation, with a particular focus on the impacts of new technologies on the economic performance of firms, sectors and national systems. Castellacci serves as Advisory Editor for Research Policy, and Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Surveys and for Industrial and Corporate Change.