Flaminio Squazzoni
University of Milan
Department of Social and Political Sciences
Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan
Phone: +390250321017
Email: flaminio.squazzoni@unimi.it.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/flaminio-squazzoni-b8bbb25
X: @squazzoni
Latest publications:
Adaptive network responses to financial shocks: evidence from Bitcoin transaction data. Socio-Economic Review, 2026, mwag040. doi: 10.1093/ser/mwag040. (With M. Venturini & D. García-Costa)
The devil’s dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies. Rationality & Society, 2026, online first. doi: 10.1177/10434631261445825. (With E. Feracciolli, F. Renzini, & T. Araújo)
An experimental study on institutions and social norms of tax payment. European Sociological Review, 2026, jcaf057. 2026. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcaf057. (With G. Pasin & A. Szekely)
Published peer review reports have higher informative content than unpublished reports. Journal of Informetrics, 20(1), 2026: 101760. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2025.101760. (With E. Álvarez-García, D. García-Costa, M. Mali?ki, B. Mehmani, & F. Grimaldo)
The paradox of competition: How funding models could undermine the uptake of data sharing practices. Research Policy, 54(10), 2025: 105340. 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105340. (With T. Klebel, F. Bianchi, & T. Ross-Hellauer)
Flaminio Squazzoni is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, director of the BehaveLab and dean of the Master in Computational Social and Political Science. Until November 2018, he has been Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia, where he led the GECS-Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology.
He is editor of JASSS-Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, and member of the editorial board of Sistemi Intelligenti. He is advisory editor of the Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science and the Springer Series in Computational Social Science. He is former President of the European Social Simulation Association (Sept 2012/Sept 2016, since 2010 member of the Management Committee) and former Director of the NASP ESLS PhD Programme in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies (2015-2016).
His fields of research are behavioural sociology, computational social science and sociology of science, with a particular interest on the effect of social norms and institutions on cooperation in social contexts. His research has a methodological focus, which lies in the intersection of experimental (lab) and computational (agent-based modelling) research.
He is author of Agent-Based Computational Sociology (Wiley, 2012), has published articles in many peer-reviewed journals (including Nature Communications, Science Advances, Social Networks and Research Policy), has served as referee for many prestigious journals (including Science, The Lancet and The American Journal of Sociology) and many prestigious funding agencies (including ERC, European Science Foundation, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Austrian Science Fund).
He has chaired the Second International Workshop EPOS on Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation (Brescia, 2006), The Fifth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (Brescia, 2008) and the 28th ECMS-European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (Brescia, 2014). He has chaired the First ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation (Brescia, 2010) and chairs the annual series of Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modellin.
Here is Flaminio’s CV: Italian or English version. Here is his GoogleScholar, SCOPUS and ORCID profiles.