Fernando Vega-Redondo, an Expert of Game Theory from Florence

The Department of Decision Sciences gains this year with a new distinguished member, as Fernando Vega-Redondo leaves the European University Institute of Florence, where he has been teaching since 2007, in order to become a Full Professor at Università Bocconi.

A graduate in Economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in 1984 Vega-Redondo obtained a PhD from the University of Minnesota, where he started his academic career as a Teaching Assistant. Later, he has carried out an intensive research activity at several universities, from Barcelona to Harvard, from Jerusalem to Vienna, from San Diego to Boston. He taught at Universidad de Alicante (from 1990) and University of Essex (from 2004).

His research has largely focused on the theory of games and its economic applications, with a special emphasis on issues of bounded rationality, learning, and evolution. Much of his recent work is devoted to understanding the interplay between strategic behavior and the evolution of social networks in complex environments.