Luca Gelsomino Academic Director, SCF Community Dr. Luca Gelsomino is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen and a senior researcher at Windesheim, as well as the Academic Director of the Supply Chain Finance Community, all in the Netherlands. His research focuses on integrating finance and supply chain management, with specific focus on how trade finance and SCF schemes influence supply chains. He obtained a PhD with merit from the School of Management at Politecnico di Milano (in Italy), where he also led the Observatory on Supply Chain Finance, the Italian permanent research initiative on Supply Chain Finance.