Serena Sordi was born in Florence on 7 April 1958. She graduated in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Banking of the University of Siena in 1982, obtaining a Master’s degree in Applied Economics at the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute in Florence in 1988. Since 2001 she has been Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy and Statistics at the University of Siena. Over the years she has participated in numerous research projects, both national and European, and from 2011 to 2016 she was head of the local research group contributing to the European project, "FESSUD-Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development" (financed by the EU Framework Program SSH .2010.1.2-1 on “Changing the role of the financial system to better serve economic, social and environmental objectives”). Her research interests mainly concern economic dynamics, with particular reference to nonlinear models of the economic cycle, growth and sustainable development. On these issues, she has published extensively in international scientific journals.
