Nicola Comincioli is currently research associate at the University of Brescia and researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan. His main research topics are energy economics (quantitative approach and real option modeling applied to resources and energy markets) and public economics (stochastic modeling in corporate taxation). He has been visiting student/researcher at the Walton College of Business (USA), Macquarie University (AUS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).