Nicola Comincioli graduated in 2010 in “Money, Finance and Risk Management” from the University of Brescia, where he is currently PhD student in “Analytics for Economics and Management”. During his education, Nicola has been visiting student at the Walton College of Business (USA), Macquarie University (AUS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). After a long experience in finance, he embraces research activity and joins FEEM as researcher. His main interests are energy market analysis and the study of renewables’ impact, both with a modeling and econometric approach, supported by high programming skills.