Luca Stella is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Milan. Before that, he worked as a Junior Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, and as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Bocconi University and at the University of Wuppertal. He has received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, and obtained the Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Padua. During his Ph.D. he spent two years as a visiting student at Boston University.

His research interests include Labor Economics, Demography and Health Economics.

Luca joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in February 2015 and became an IZA Research Fellow in December 2023.