Background 

Lorenzo is an Associate Professor in Ecological Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Florence (Italy), serving on the Board of two doctoral programs: Social Sciences for Sustainability and Wellbeing (S3W) and Urban Future Studies (UFS). 

Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the PRIN PNRR Project “MUST4Water” and previously led the MIT-UNIPI MISTI Grant project “EMERITUS” in collaboration with MIT and Virginia Tech. 

He was a Visiting Research Scholar at the: Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín, Colombia), Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (Cambridge, UK), and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain).

Research interests

He published in international journals such as Nature Sustainability, Ecological Economics, PloS One, Economic System Research, among others, and I participated in several international conferences and workshops. His main current research interests include Ecological Macroeconomics, International Trade, Water Resources and Climate Change, Input-Output, Network Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, Philosophy and Epistemological Economics.

Here is his ResearchGate page.

Role

He works in connection with the Societal Transition for a Sustainable Economy focus area.