Stefania Bortolotti is a senior assistant professor (RtD-b) at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna.

She obtained a PhD in Economics and Management from the University of Trento. She was a research fellow at the University of Bologna, the University of Cologne, and the Max Planck Institute in Bonn. She is interested in behavioral and experimental economics, and investigates topics such as cooperation, inequality, gender gap, and incentive systems. Her work has been published in international journals such as Economic Journal, European Economic Review, and Journal of Money Credit & Banking.

Stefania Bortolotti joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2020.