Marco Casari has earned a Ph.D. California Institute of Technology and held positions at Ohio State University, the Autonoma University in Barcelona, and Purdue University. His research is about the foundations of cooperation in societies from both institutional and behavioral perspectives. His recent projects employ laboratory experiments to study cooperation in global climate change, the emergence of money as a medium of exchange, the regional divides in terms of civicness, and cooperation in continuous time. He is the Director of the Bologna Laboratory for Experiments in the Social Sciences. He has received an ERC Starting Grant to study cooperation among strangers and financial support from other public and private institutions. Publications have appeared among others in Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.