Gianluca Manzo earned a Ph.D. in Social Sciences (2006) jointly from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the University of Trento. He currently is a permanent research fellow at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) as a member of the Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (GEMASS, Paris) as well as a non-permanent lecturer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. His research focuses on reason- and network-based explanations of social inequalities and on how testing these explanations by means of agent-based computational models. On these topics, he published a book, The spiral of inequalities (Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2009), several articles published in European Sociological Review, European Journal of Sociology, Quality and Quantity, and Revue Française de Sociologie, as well as chapters in volumes edited by Cambridge University Press.