Massimiliano Carlo Pietro Rizzati joined FEEM in July 2019 as a researcher for the FACTS (Firms and Cities Towards Sustainability) program. He holds a Joint degree in Economics and Political Science with the University of Milan and in Economics with the Catholic University of Louvain. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the DEFAP program (Catholic University of Milan-University of Milan-Bicocca), with a dissertation focusing on Agent-based modeling and Economic geography. His current focus is on the FACTS area of interest of Energy Transition and Cities.