Efrem Castelnuovo has been Professor of Economics at the University of Padua since August 2019.

Previously, he held positions at the University of Melbourne. Before joining the Melbourne Institute, Efrem held positions at the University of Padua and taught at the Universities of Oxford, Bologna, Brescia, Rome Tor Vergata, and at the Halle Institute for Economic Research. He earned his PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2004 and has been co-editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics since 2013.

His research interests include the role of nonlinearities in the transmission of structural shocks, the identification of common factors across countries, and the empirical validation of structural DSGE models. He has published his research in several international journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Economics Letters.

In the winter semester 2025, Efrem Castelnuovo will teach the Master's and PhD course "Monetary Economics: Theory and Empirics".