Simone Landini earned his Doctoral Degree in Mathematics from the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy in 2006. He is a researcher at the Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte (IRES Piemonte), Turin, Italy. He has been visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney. His research interests include macroeconomics, dynamics of industrial and banking sectors, the financial fragility of economic systems, income and wealth distribution, financial markets analysis and microstructure, agent based modelling and their analytical solution, statistical physics and econometric applications to social and regional sciences.