Curriculum Vitae

I am an applied microeconomist, interested in Labor Economics, Business Economics, Gender Economics, and the Economics of Innovation.

Since December 2021, I am a Senior Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics of the University of Turin, where I teach Data Management and Programming and Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Firms. I am a Research Fellow at the Centre Emile Bernheim de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Gestion (CEBRIG) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Research Fellow at the LABORatorio Riccardo Revelli - Centre for Employment Studies (LABOR) at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. In October 2019, I received the Young Italian Economist Award from the Italian Economic Association. In November 2020, I received the National Academic Qualification as an Associate Professor in Applied Economics (SECS-P/06) and, in June 2021, I obtained the same recognition in Political Economy (SECS-P/02). In May 2023, I then received the National Academic Qualification as a Full Professor in Applied Economics (SECS-P/06).

I was born on September 20th, 1988, in Turin, Italy. After high-school studies emphasizing humanistic disciplines, such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Philosophy, I started my Economics studies at the University of Turin. I obtained a BA in Economics in 2010. I then completed an M.Sc. in Economics in July 2012. In January 2016, I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Turin in cooperation with the Collegio Carlo Alberto). After the completion of my Ph.D., I served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics of the University of Turin (2016-2018) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan (2018-2019). Between July 2019 and November 2021, I was a Junior Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of ​Management and Production Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino. 

I have been teaching several courses at the University of Turin, Politecnico di Torino, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and University of Milan,  which include, among the others, Microeconomic Theory and Economics of Human Resources.

You can find my detailed cv, with the full list of publications and research programs I am involved in, here.

Elena Grinza - cv.pdf