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Alessia Cafferata is a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Actuarial Science and Finance at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa (Italy). She has a PhD degree (2019) from the University of Genoa (Italy). Her research interests range from behavioral economics to real-financial market interactions and, more recently, to the economics of climate change. Her contributions mainly focus on the development and calibration of nonlinear dynamic models with heterogeneous agents to investigate relevant macroeconomic issues. Empirical studies concern mostly the study of interdependence and explosive dynamics in the cryptocurrency market and financial applications of machine learning techniques. Scholarly papers have been published in top-ranked journals such as the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Annals of Operations Research, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, among others.

Academic appointments

• 09/2024- : Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTDb) in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Actuarial Science and Finance at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, Italy;
• 09/2020-31/08/2024: Fixed-term Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Actuarial Science and Finance at the Department of Management, University of Turin, Italy;
• 09/19-31/08/2020: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, Italy.