Federico Bianchi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia (Italy), where he is part of GECS - Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology. His research mainly focuses on the link between economic exchange and solidarity, and peer-review evaluation of scientific research, by mostly applying computational simulations and social network analysis. His works have been published on Social Networks, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, the Journal of Informetrics, and Scientometrics, among others. He is member of the editorial board of Sociologica - International Journal of Sociological Debate.