Tamas Vonyo is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Department of Social and Political Sciences and resident member of the Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University. Previously, he held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Groningen, associated with the Groningen Growth and Development Centre. His research interests include the economic history of modern Germany and Eastern Europe, industrialization, the economics of modern warfare, particularly the world wars, and socialist development.