Carlo Sgarra is Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance at Politecnico di Milano. The main subjects of his research are exotic option pricing, valuation problems in incomplete market models, in particular stochastic volatility models, models with jumps and models with transaction cost. His most recent projects are focused on energy market models and pricing and hedging of energy commodity derivatives: parameter estimation methods and risk premium valuation for different model classes. He published about 30 papers on international journals and three textbooks on Mathematical Finance.