Team

Full Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa, and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Economics of the Tuscan universities (Florence, Pisa, and Siena). His research interests include inequality, behavioral economics, ecological economics, and degrowth. In recent years, his work has focused on the socio-economic effects of policies aimed at promoting the transformation toward social and ecological sustainability. 

Researcher in Political Economy at the Department of Economics and Management, where he teaches Microeconomics and Economic Methodology. His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, the philosophy of science as applied to economics, and the evaluation of eco-social policies. He investigates the cognitive, economic, and social conditions underpinning pro-social behavior, collective action, and pro-environmental choices. He also studies the social acceptability of the ecological transition, exploring the role of inequality, social cohesion, and non-economic factors of well-being.

Engineer and economist, currently pursuing a PhD as an MSCA fellow funded by the European Commission, in collaboration with the Universities of Siena, Pisa, UCLouvain, and IIASA. His research focuses on quantifying the economic and financial risks associated with biodiversity loss, particularly in forest ecosystems, through interdisciplinary approaches such as ecological-economic modeling and systems analysis. By integrating ecological data with economic models, he aims to inform policies that align financial systems with biodiversity conservation and strengthen economic resilience.

Currently a PhD candidate in Social and Regional Sciences at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (L’Aquila), she focuses on social inequalities related to environmental policies, both in terms of income and gender. Her research interests also include ecological macroeconomics, with particular attention to distributive impacts. She holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Pisa, with a thesis on the links between environmental policies and climate justice.

Researcher at the University of Pisa, he holds a PhD in Economics from the Tuscan universities (Florence, Pisa, and Siena). With a background in macroeconomic modeling and data analysis, his research focuses on consumption, the labor market, and social policies, integrating empirical microdata analysis into macroeconomic integrated assessment models.

Researcher in Economics at the Department of Law, University of Pisa, with a background in applied game theory and interests in industrial organization and political economy. His current research focuses on experimental economics, exploring pro-social behavior—both environmental and non-environmental—through public goods and extraction games. He is also interested in integrating computational methods, such as agent-based models, with game theory to assess the robustness of theoretical predictions.

Cristina Colapietra is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universities of Siena, Pisa, and Florence, as part of the European project "Fashioning Just Transition." Her research analyzes the role of gender, class, ecological inequalities, and unequal exchanges in labor dynamics and resource exploitation in the fast fashion supply chain, with a focus on socio-environmental justice between the Global North and South. She is active in campaigns and networks for climate and social justice, promoting just transition policies. She holds a Master's degree in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development from the University of Bologna, with a study period at Wageningen University (The Netherlands), and a Bachelor's degree in Economics, Markets, and Institutions from the University of Bologna.

Lecturer and researcher at the Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, she works on ecological economics, ecological transitions, and environmental justice, with a particular focus on classical theories of production and socio-ecological reproduction. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Siena, with research periods at ICTA of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published in international journals and edited volumes, addressing issues such as social inequalities in low-carbon transitions and the integration of ecological concerns into heterodox economic traditions.

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa, he holds a PhD in Economics from The Open University (UK) and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. His research focuses on macroeconomics and structural change, with particular attention to the development of multisectoral macroeconomic models that combine Input-Output analysis with Stock-Flow Consistent modeling, in order to assess the environmental and socio-economic impacts of alternative green transition scenarios.

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa, his main research interests include the link between ecological transition and inequality from a macroeconomic perspective, as well as ecological macroeconomic modeling. He holds a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), she studies social norms and behavior change in contexts of risk and uncertainty. She collaborates on the project Norms at Risk, which investigates the factors that strengthen or weaken norms, including the role of trendsetters. Her research also focuses on work-time reduction and social capital in the ecological transition, using social science methods and behavioral economics experiments.

She is part of the Ecoesione SRL team and holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Veracruzana (Mexico). Her research focuses on sustainable rural development, with a particular focus on the socioeconomic impact of activities such as rural tourism and agroforestry.

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa and visiting researcher at the University of Barcelona. He develops quantitative models of socio-economic dynamics that account for the planet’s biophysical limits, using methods and frameworks rooted in complex networks, agent-based modeling, information theory, probability theory, and statistical data analysis. He holds a PhD in quantum information theory from ICFO (The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona). Before his current position, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona) and the University of Barcelona.

Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa. In 2025, he earned a PhD in Economics from the joint program of the Tuscan universities (Siena, Pisa, and Florence). His research focuses on decision-making and behavioral aspects related to consumption and inequality, explored through dynamic modeling techniques, social network analysis, and experiments. He previously obtained a Master's degree in Development Economics from the University of Florence and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Cagliari.

A PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Siena, he focuses on agent-based models, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. His research explores how social influence impacts consumer behavior and the effectiveness of environmental policies, particularly in relation to climate change concerns. He earned his master's degree in Economics from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

Researcher at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (IEP@BU), he works on the macroeconomics of decarbonization and the energy transition, using integrated assessment models. He holds a joint PhD from the Sorbonne University Alliance and Roma Tre University, and studied at Kingston University London, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and the University of Tulsa. He is also an editor of Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics.

A PhD student at the University of Lisbon, he focuses his research on the nexus between climate crisis, inequalities (economic and gender) and economic growth, applying his training as an energy engineer to develop ecological macroeconomic models. He is one of the coordinators of the Post-growth Economics Network and has contributed to creating an online space for those working in Post-growth Modelling.

Fixed-term researcher at the University of Pisa. He holds a PhD in Economics from the joint program of the Universities of Florence, Siena, and Pisa. His research focuses on ecological macroeconomic modeling, open economy macroeconomics, inflation and monetary policy, demand-led growth, and the political economy of growth models.

He collaborates with the Ecohesion collective at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa. He is thematic lead on Economy and Labor at COSPE, collaborates with Fairwatch, and is involved in communication for various organizations connected to social solidarity and the third sector. A former observer at the UNFCCC and WTO negotiations, he is the author of several publications, including Il voto nel portafoglio (2008), I Signori della Green economy (2013), Nelle mani dei mercati. Perché il TTIP va fermato (2015), and Trivelle insostenibili (2016).