Simone Bertoli is Professor of Economics at CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne, since September 2016; he had joined the Université Clermont Auvergne as an assistant professor with a joint chair with the CNRS in September 2011 after having held post-doctoral position at the IAB and the EUI.
He received his Ph.D. in Development Economics from the University of Florence in 2007. His main research interests include international migration, economic development and labor economics. His current research activities focus on the theoretical and empirical study of the determinants of international migration and on the economic effects produced by migration on origin countries.