Scientific Committee


Paolo Legrenzi
He is a member of the Ca’ Foscari’s Innovation Board and Board of Directors, as well as the Commission for the Lévi-Strauss award of the Collège de France. He is a resident member of the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Arts and Letters (IVSLA), of the Association il Mulino (President of the Editorial Committee), and of the American Psychological Association. He collaborates with IlSole24Ore and La Repubblica newspapers.
He has always dealt with the psychology of choice, and specifically the theory of rational choice. He has written several articles published in international journals, alongside 13 monographs, four manuals and essays translated into several languages, and three books dedicated to behavioral finance:
PSICOLOGIA E INVESTIMENTI FINANZIARI (GruppoSole24Ore, 2009), I SOLDI IN TESTA (Laterza, 2012), the essay PERCHE’ GESTIAMO MALE I NOSTRI RISPARMI (2013) against the do-it-yourself in investment choices, FRUGALITA '(Mulino 2014), a dedicated essay to financial advisors: SEI ESERCIZI FACILI (Cortina, April 2015) and L’ECONOMIA DELLA MENTE (Cortina, September 2016).

Michele Costabile

Matteo De Angelis

Paolo Peverini
Paolo Peverini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Management of LUISS, where he teaches "Marketing Communication and New Media Languages". He is Deputy Director of the X.ITE Research Center on Behaviors and Technologies. On March21, 2017 he was appointed by Pope Francis a consultant to the Dicastery of Communication (Holy See)
He is the author of many scientific publications which have been published in some of the most prestigious semiotic international scientific journals. His last monograph was “Social Guerrilla: Semiotics of unconventional communication” (Luiss University Press 2014). He was a visiting professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, as well as a member of Lars (Roman Laboratory of Semiotics). His research area concerns the qualitative analysis of communication, with a particular focus on the theories and methodologies of semiotics and sociosemiotics.

Simona Romani

Francesco Ricotta
Francesco Ricotta is a Full Professor of Marketing and Business Management at Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches Omnichannel Marketing and Marketing. He is the author and co-author of over 90 publications, including books, articles and working papers published in national and international academis journals.

Fabio Babiloni
Prof. Babiloni is the author of more than 250 communications to conferences, as well as 240 scientific publications that have been featured in international peer-reviewed journals. With an H-index of 61, Prof. Babiloni is on the list of Top Italian Scientists, which captures the 2500 living scientists with the highest h-index across all disciplines. He was the first Italian author to publish scientific works on neuromarketing (2006), as well as the first to write a textbook on neuromarketing in Italian (2007, with Springer) and in English language (2014, with Springer).

Pietro De Giovanni
Pietro De Giovanni is Associate Professor of International Operations, Supply Chain and Circular Economy in the Department of Business and Management at Luiss University. He holds a PhD from ESSEC Business School, and was visiting PhD candidate at GERAD, HEC Montréal. Before joining Luiss, he has held positions at ESSEC Business School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and NOVA School of Business and Economics. His research interests are supply chain, operations management, sustainability, and digital transformation. He is Associate Editor of International Transactions of Operations Research.
He has published in Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research. Part D Transport and Environment, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Research, 4OR, Omega, Research Policy. He has recently published the book entitled “How Digital Transformation impacts Supply Chain Quality Management” edited by Springer.

Rino Rumiati
At the University of Padua, he was a full professor of "Psychology of Judgment and Decision" in the School of Law, as well as President of Communication Degree Program. Additionally, he was Vice Rector for HR, where he oversaw the university’s decentralized bargaining. He also spent time at the University of Trento, teaching Decision Psychology at the Faculty of Economics and Cognitive Psychology for the degree in Cognitive Sciences. In fact, he served as that university’s first Director for the Department of Cognitive Sciences.
He currently teaches "Neuroscience and Law" in the Master in Law degree at LUISS and "Psychology of Decisions" at the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori of the University of Padua. He also teaches Psychopathology and Forensic Neuropsychology of the University of Padua and in the programs of the Scuola Superiore della Magistratura.

Piero Vereni
