Background

Pietro Battiston is a researcher in Economics with a background in matematics and a passion for programming. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Milan-Bicocca, and in 2022 he has joined the Department of Economics and Management of University of Pisa as an Assistant Professor (RTDb).

He has been a visiting PhD student in Central European University, Budapest, and visiting researcher at Barnard College, New York.

Research interests

His main research interests are experimental and behavioral economics, together with network theory, approaches that he has applied to multiple issues, including of environmental and fiscal sustainability.

He has published empirical, experimental and theoretical works in international journals including the Scandinavian Journal and Economics, Health Policy, World Development and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

In 2021, he has published the book “La responsabilità di rete. Network, economia e società,” (Network Responsibility. Networks, economics and society) for Italian editor Il Mulino.