Mauro Gallegati is Professor of Advanced Macroeconomics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Università degli Studi di Ancona, Italy in 1989. He has been visiting professor in several universities including Stanford University, Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research includes business fluctuations, econophysics, nonlinear dynamics, models of financial fragility and heterogeneous interacting agents. He published papers in economic, history of economy and history of economic analysis, nonlinear math, applied economics and econophysics.
