Francesco M. S. Fiore Melacrinis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economic History at the University of Milan–Bicocca.

He holds a PhD in Socio-Economics and Statistical Studies from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with a dissertation in Economic History on wages and prices in Southern Italy between 1800 and 1860. His research explores economic history through quantitative methods, with a focus on labour markets, living standards, and regional divergence in preindustrial and modern times. He also works on the history of public health and long-term economic inequality.

He is currently involved in the CARIPLO–Inequalities Research project, “Taxation, Public Expenditure, and Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Venetian Lombardy (1400–1800)”.