Fabrizio Lillo is Full Professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics and Finance at the University of Bologna (Italy). Formerly he has been Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy), where he led the Quantitative Finance group. He has been also External Faculty and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute (USA). He received the PhD in Physics at the University of Palermo (Italy) where he was also Assistant Professor. He has been postdoc and then researcher of the National Institute of the Physics of Matter, INFM. After that he has been postdoc of the Santa Fe Institute. He has been awarded the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics of the German Physical Society in 2007. He is author of more than 130 referred scientific papers, which, according to Google Scholar, have received 11,000 citations (h-index is 52). He is also member of the editorial board of several journals. Since July 2020 he holds (50%) the chair in Financial mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa on the project  “Microstructure of Financial Markets – Networks and Systemic Risk”