Andrea Rapisarda is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Catania, Italy. He is also the coordinator of a PhD program in Complex Systems for Physical, Socio-economic and Life Sciences, co-director of the International School on Complexity of the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice and member of the Council of the Complex Systems Society.

He is co-author of more than 150 publications in international journals and member of the editorial board of Physica A, Heliyon, Cogent Physics, Frontiers in Physics (Social physics), Entropy, Complexity.

His main interests are complex systems, statistical mechanics,  deterministic chaos, nonlinear dynamics, complex networks and agent-based models. In the last years,  Andrea has focused his research on the beneficial role of random strategies  in socio-economic systems, the results have been featured in several international newspapers, radio and TV programs such as The New York Times, Forbes, Financial Times, Le Figaro, The Guardian, BBC, RAI television and many others.