Alessia Cafferata

Alessia Cafferata

Current position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTDB), University of Pisa.

Research Experience:
2024- Current Senior Assistant Professor (RTDB), Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa. SSD: SECS-S/06
2020- 2024 Junior Assistant Professor (RTDA), Department of Management, University of Turin. SSD: SECS-S/06
2019-20 Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Siena. Project: “financial fragility and dynamic instability of the economic system”. Advisor: Prof. Serena Sordi.
2019 Research fellow, Liguria Ricerche S.p.A. Project: “social analysis of the impact of pathological gambling in Liguria”. Advisor: Prof. Luca Gandullia.

Research interests: nonlinear dynamics in economics and finance.

Education and Academic Qualifications
2023-2034 Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor of Economics, SECS-S/06 (from 12/12/2023 to 12/12/2034); Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor of Economics, SECS-P/01 (from 05/06/2023 to 05/06/2034)
2015–2018 PhD in Economics, University of Genoa. Graduated in May 2019. Specialization: financial mathematics, computational finance, non-linear dynamics in economics. SSD: SECS-S/06
2013 – 2015 MSc in Economics and Finance, Economics track, University of Pavia. Graduated with distinction in July 2015.

Visiting Appointments
Oct 23 Visiting scholar, CeNDEF, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Host: Prof. Jan Tuinstra
Feb-April22 Visiting scholar, Economics School of Louvain, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Host: Prof. Fabio Mariani
• Grant Erasmus+ teaching staff.
2017–2018 Visiting PhD student at CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Host: Prof. C.H Hommes

Publications: she is author of several publications in top-ranked journals ("riviste di fascia A"), such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Communications in Nonlinear Science, Structural Change and Economics Dynamics, Decisions in Economics and Finance, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.

Grant and Awards:
2022 Winner of the Grant for Internationalization, University of Turin. Research project: “Sviluppo di modelli finalizzati allo studio del rischio sistemico collegato al credito ed alla finanza”. Amount of the grant: 26.868,23 euros.
2022 Second prize of the Risks 2021 Best Paper Awards, MDPI.
2020 Best PhD dissertation award – School of Social sciences, University of Genoa.
2018 PSY-Games Experiment Grant Psychological Game Theory Summer School and winner of the first prize of team-works competition.

Teaching experience:
2024-2025 Lecturer of Mathematics (BSc in Economics and Business Science), Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa.
2024 Lecturer of Empirical Analysis of Financial Markets (MSc of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets), Department of Management, University of Turin.
2022 Visiting Professor of Population and Family Economics (MA in Economics), Economics School of Louvain, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.
2021-Currently Guest Lecturer of Discrete Dynamical Systems in Economics (1st year PhD course, program in Economics and Quantitative methods), Department of Economics, University of Genoa.
2020-Currently Lecturer of Mathematics for Business (undergraduate course, BSc in Business and Management), Department of Management, University of Turin.
2019-2020 Teaching Assistant of Mathematics for Business and Economics (undergraduate course, BSc in Business and Management), SAA, University of Turin.
2018-2021 Adjunct Professor of Political Economy (undergraduate course, BSc in Law), 6 CFU, Department of Law, U