Aste is UCL Professor of Complexity Science; Head of the Financial Computing and Analytics Group UCL (2012-), co-Director UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (2015-), Programme Director MSc in Financial Risk Management (2012-); Vice-Director of the Centre for doctoral Training in Financial Computing & Analytics (2014-); Member of the Board of the ESRC LSE-UCL Systemic Risk Centre (2012-). Tomaso Aste graduated in Physics at the University of Genoa and has a PhD in from Politecnico di Milano. Prior to UCL he was Reader at the School of Physics, University of Kent (2009-2012); Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics The Australian National University (2002-2009).