Rossana Mastrandrea

Rossana Mastrandrea is an Assistant Professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, affiliated with the AXES Research Unit. Her work integrates complex network analysis with interdisciplinary research in Economics, Environmental Science, and Behavioral Studies. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa) and has conducted research at the Lorenz Institute of Theoretical Physics (Leiden, Netherlands) and the INET project on Macroeconomics Networks.

Her research focuses on theoretical and empirical analysis of complex networks in economic, social, and biological systems. Current projects include studying pharmaceutical innovation through patent citation networks (PRIN project on mRNA vaccines), pro-environmental behavior using evolutionary game theory, and carbon emissions via network approaches. She also explores brain connectivity dynamics and global trade networks using statistical physics and agent-based modeling.

Key themes in her work include network reconstruction, motif analysis, and the application of optimal transport methods. Her recent studies address topics like cooperation dynamics in structured populations, coalition formation in litigation, and the role of information load in functional brain connectivity.

Rossana coordinates the PRIN project analyzing public and private roles in pharmaceutical innovations and has contributed to high-impact studies on environmental performance metrics, global value chains, and schizophrenia-related brain network alterations.