Valentina Macchiati

Valentina Macchiati earned her Ph.D. in Data Science from Scuola Normale Superiore in 2024, with a thesis on "Financial Networks: Reconstruction and Stability," supervised by Prof. Diego Garlaschelli and Dr. Piero Mazzarisi. Her research focused on network reconstruction, systemic risk modeling, and financial contagion using large, multi-source datasets. She reconstructed the interbank market network from partial public data and developed a method that incorporates reciprocity, enhancing the accuracy of stability predictions. Her work outperforms existing models by closely matching empirical network properties, in particular spectral ones. Valentina holds a Bachelor's in Physics from the University of Camerino (2016) and a Master's in Physics of Complex Systems from the University of Turin (2019).