Tiziana Di Matteo is a Professor of Econophysics in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London. She received her BSc (Hons) in Physics (110/110 Cum Laude) in 1994 and her PhD in Physics in 1999 in the Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica - Università di Salerno, Italy. From 1999-2002 she held a postdoctoral Fellow and Research contract "Assegno di Ricerca", at the Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy. In 2002 she became a postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics at the Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and from 2003-2008 she was a QEII Fellow in Applied Mathematics at the same university in Australia. She joined King’s College London in 2009 as a Lecturer in Financial Mathematics and was promoted to Professor of Econophysics in 2014.

Tiziana is also an External Faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “E. Fermi” where she also holds a Visiting Professorial position.

Tiziana is an Elected Member of Academia Europaea, Elected Member of the Steering Committee for the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) and Founding Member of the British Network Society Executive Committee. She has served as Member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Member of the Board for the Complex Systems Laboratory, and both a Member of the Council and Member of the Executive Committee for the Complex Systems Society.

She is a Main Editor of Physica A, Editor of Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Editor of the European Physical Journal B, Editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Finance journal, has been an Editor for a new online-only journal, Journal of Social Physics, since July 2025 and Guest Editor of several other volumes. She has been Editor-in-Chief for the Journal Advances in Mathematical Physics and the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Tiziana is Co-founder of the Econophysics Network and she has been a consultant for the Financial Services Authority, several hedge funds and companies and she is consultant for Jupiter Asset Management.

 

Research interests

• Econophysics
• Application of methods from Statistical Physics to Finance
• Data Analytics
• Complex Systems
• Science of Networks
• King's Institute for Human and Synthetic Minds

Further information

• Research Profile and Publications
• Personal Website 
• Econophysics Colloquium