Stefano Armenia is a Tenure-track Lecturer (Ricercatore TDB) in Business Organisations and in the analysis of Dynamical Systems at the Università Telematica degli Studi in Florence, where he teaches business organisations and marketing communication techniques. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering, Industrial Automation & Control Systems, a Ph.D. in Business Engineering and a Master’s degree in Management and Business Administration. He is member of the System Dynamics International Society (SDS) since 2002, President of the System Dynamics Italian Chapter (SYDIC – the Italian Network of the SDS) since 2011 and member of the SDS Policy Council from 2014 to 2022, where he also acted as vice-president Chapters & SIGs. From 2014 to 2017 he was the IT & Communication Officer of the European Academy of Management. In 2021 he obtained the national scientific status as associate professor in Business Organisations.
His professional background includes extensive knowledge of major funding programs at the national (Italian) and international levels with specific experience in research programs. Among his previous roles, he has acted as bid manager, project manager and professional consultant in several fields, both in public administration and industrial environments.
In his research work, he deals with the analysis of complex systems dynamics in many fields: cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, logistics and sustainable transportation, finance, technological innovation, policy modelling and assessment of impacts of innovation and new technologies on organisational processes and on society. From 2014 to 2020 he was co-editor in chief of the Kybernetes Journal (Emerald-Insights) and is currently Associate or Guest editor in several other scientific journals in the field of system dynamics (IJASS, IJMABS). He is an author of several papers in top-ranked journals and has been involved in various initiatives dealing with sustainable development and climate change (he has led the Climate Action Exercise on several previous occasions, both at public and private levels). He has been involved in different research dealing with sustainable development and other environmental issues (i.e. carbon capture and sequestration, urban sustainable development etc.) as well as with the translation of sustainability best sellers (i.e.: “Thinking in Systems” by Donella Meadows).
