Giulio Bottazzi is a Professor of Economics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy) where he has taught courses in mathematics and statistics since 2010. He graduated at the Parma University and holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Milano University. He is the author of several papers published in international journals. His research interests range from industrial dynamics to financial economics, encompassing experimental economics, economic geography, theoretical and empirical aspects of market interactions and applied econometrics. He is the author of several software packages for data analysis and simulation of economic models.