Fabio Mattioli is an Associate Professor in Social Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Bachelor's degree from the Università di Firenze in Italy. Prior to his current position, he taught at John Jay College and New York University. Mattioli serves as Director of the Critical Ethnography Lab and is an associated researcher at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics and an affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His research specializes in economic anthropology, examining how economic and technological innovations shape society, including the political dimensions of artificial intelligence, finance, and entrepreneurship. He explores financialization, illiquidity, debt, and authoritarianism, particularly at Europe's margins, such as in North Macedonia, alongside studies on startups, innovation ecosystems, and AI applications in sectors like aerospace, viticulture, and wine production.

Mattioli's key publications include the book Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe, published by Stanford University Press in 2020, which analyzes financial expansion's impact on democracy during the global financial crisis. Other notable works are 'Financialization without liquidity: in-kind payments, forced credit, and authoritarianism at the periphery of Europe' in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2018), co-authored 'Finance beyond function: Three causal explanations for financialization' (2018), 'Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery' (2023), 'Anthropology, financial expansion and its relationalities from “marginal sites”: An introduction' (2023), and 'Disruption, interrupted: Startups and social challenges in a government accelerator' (2023). He received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. His ethnographic approach, termed organic political economy, intersects political-economic trends with participants' lived experiences, contributing to understandings of finance, technology, and power in contemporary societies.

Professional Email: fabio.mattioli@unimelb.edu.au