Fabio Spagnolo is Full Professor of Economic Statistics in the Department of Economics at the University of Messina. He holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, and a Laurea from the University of Naples Federico II. He has conducted academic and research activities at Birkbeck and Brunel University of London in the Departments of Economics, Finance, and Mathematics, and has taught courses in financial econometrics and financial theory in both academic and executive programs. He has worked as a consultant for hedge funds, has held several academic leadership roles, and has served as Principal Investigator on numerous publicly funded research projects and grants in Italy and the UK. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Quantitative Finance.