SERIES EDITOR BIOS:  

Rosario N. Mantegna is Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Palermo and an external faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He is one of the pioneers of econophysics and economic networks, and he co‐authored the first book on the topic (‘Introduction to Econophysics’, Cambridge, 1999). 

Bikas K Chakrabarti is Emeritus Professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and visiting Professor of Economics in the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has co-authored more than two hundred papers and ten books (including ‘Econophysics of Income & Wealth Distributions’, Cambridge, 2013). In 1995, he organized a conference in Kolkata, where the term "econophysics" was first coined.  

Mauro Gallegati is Professor of Economics at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona. He has previously held visiting scholarships at Cambridge, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, the Santa Fe Institute, the Brookings Institution, and ETH Zurich. His research includes business fluctuations, nonlinear dynamics, models of financial fragility, and heterogeneous interacting agents.  

Irena Vodenska is Professor and Director of Finance Programs at Boston University Metropolitan College. Her research is focused on network theory and complexity science in macroeconomics, particularly the modeling of early warning indicators and systemic risk propagation throughout interconnected financial and economic networks. She is a co-editor of the book ‘Econophysics and Sociophysics: Recent Progress and Future Directions’ (Springer, 2017)

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