Matteo Calabrese is a business historian with a background in Economics and History from Utrecht and Leiden Universities. He earned his PhD in financial history from the University of Luxembourg, where he focused on the emergence of investment funds in Luxembourg. His research explores financial and long-run economic history, with interests ranging from the development of global financial hubs to labour history and the roots of economic growth.

He has published in journals such as Contemporary European History, Italian Economic Journal, Historical Methods, Business History Review, and Business History. Matteo has held academic positions as a lecturer at the University of Turin, as a postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University, and as a research associate and lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher within the DIGSHELL project at Luxembourg University.