Flaminio Squazzoni is Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, where he heads the GECS-Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology. He is review editor of JASSS-Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation and has been chair of the Fifth European Social Simulation Association Conference (Brescia, 2008) and director of the First ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation (Brescia, 2010). His research interest is social simulation. In particular, he is doing research on the modelling and understanding of social norms and institutions in economic systems, by combining experimental and simulation methods. Currently, he is working on a monograph on “Agent-Based Computational Sociology” (Wiley Blackwell, UK), forthcoming in 2011. Email: squazzon@eco.unibs.it.