He received a B.S. in Economics and Quantitative Methods in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 2007 from the University of Florence. Christian was a Post-Doc Research Fellow at NYU Stern until 2011. He has published articles in leading international journals such as Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, Journal of Risk, Journal of Financial Econometrics, International Journal of Forecasting and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Together with other famous researchers such as Acharya, Engle, Farazmand and Richardson, he published the book chapter “Measuring Systemic Risk”, in Managing and Measuring Risk: Emerging Global Standards and Regulation after the Financial Crisis. His research interests are Systemic Risk, Network Analysis, Nonlinear Time Series, Forecasting, Statistical Computing, Empirical Finance and Financial