Massimiliano Carlo Pietro Rizzati holds a joint master’s degree in Economics and Political Science and Economics from the University of Milan and the Université Catholique de Louvain. He obtained a PhD in Economics at the DEFAP program (University of Milan-Bicocca – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan), with a thesis on agent-based models and geographical economics. He is currently a researcher at the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation as part of the “Modelling Energy Transition (MET-ABM)” research program.