Santa Fe Institute

Bio

Fabrizio Lillo is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and at the University of Palermo (Italy). He has been awarded of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics of the German Physical Society in 2007. His research is focused on the application of methods and tools of statistical physics to economic, financial, and biological systems. Recently he has been interested in the microstructure of financial markets and in the empirical study of economic and financial systems where the data allow to investigate the behavior of individual agents with the aim of building empirically based agent based models. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Palermo. He has been researcher of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (Italy) and post doctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He is author of more than 60 scientific papers.