Diego Garlaschelli is Associate Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca (IT) and at the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University (NL). He is Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, Oxford University (UK). Since 2011, he leads a research group with strongly interdisciplinary interests, including network theory, economic complexity, social dynamics, statistical physics and graph theory. He teaches courses in Complex Networks and Econophysics. He holds a master degree in theoretical physics from the University of Rome III (2001) and a PhD in Physics from the University of Siena (2005). He held postdoctoral positions at the Australian National University in Canberra (Australia), the University of Siena (Italy), the University of Oxford (UK) and the S. Anna School for Advanced Studies in Pisa (Italy). He has given more than 50 invited talks at international conferences, workshops, and scientific schools. He is author of more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals (including major ones like Science, Nature, Nature Physics, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X) and peer-reviewed book chapters, and of one monograph.