Luigi Bonaventura

Born:  Catania, 02/03/1970

 

Email: lbonaventura@lex.unict.it

 

SCIENTIFIC CURRICULUM

 

 

Academic titles

2006:   Ph.D. in Science of Labour at University of Milano. Title La Complessitˆ del Sommerso. Teorie evolutive e computazionali dellÕeconomia e del lavoro irregolare. Supervisor: prof. Michele Salvati. Thesis discussant: prof. Claudio Lucifora (Universitˆ Cattolica – Milano).

2004:   M.Sc. in Labour Economics at University of Milano, Faculty of Political Sciences, Milano.

2001:   Graduate degree in Economics at the University of Catania, Faculty of Economics. Thesis in Riflessioni sui Fondamenti e Metodi della Scelta Razionale. Supervisor prof. Maurizio Caserta

 

Current positions

2008 - Researcher, Universitˆ degli Studi di Catania, Faculty of Law

2007 - Post-doc at Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics, University of Catania. Head of project: Ò Modelli ad Agenti per le economie Sommerse: unÕanalisi delle PolicyÓ. Supervisor prof. Maurizio  Caserta.

2006 -  Lecturer in Economia Politica, Faculty of Law, University of Catania. Tutor: prof. Stefano Figuera.

2005 -  Lecturer in Microeconomia, Faculty of Economics, University of Catania. Tutor: prof. Rosario La Rosa.

 

Editorial positions

2006 -  Referee for Southern Economic Journal

2007 -  Referee for Bepress Journals in Economics

 

Memberships to learned societies

EAEPE – European association for evolutionary political economy

SWARM – Swarm Development group (http://www.swarm.org)

AIEL – Associazione italiana economisti del lavoro

SIDE – Societˆ italiana diritto ed economia

 

Other activities

2005 - Advanced in ÒModelli di simulazione ad Agenti: SWARMÓ, Universitˆ degli Studi di Torino. Tutor: prof. Pietro Terna.

2004 - Visiting student, presso il Centre of Operation Research and Econometrics (CORE), Universitˆ Cattolica di Louvain (BE).

 

Programmazione in C++, Java; scrittura in LaTex;

Utilizzo di programmi di simulazione ad agenti: Swarm, NetLogo, Jas.