Vitae
autoCV.pdfCurrent Position
[2023-] Associate Professor of Economics, University of Molise
Past Positions
[2020-2023] Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Molise
[2020-2020] Research Fellow, Centro Studi SOSE S.p.A. (Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance)
[2018-2020] Research Fellow, Epidemiology and Health Research Lab, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council of Italy (IFC-CNR)
[2012-2014] Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence
Education
[2014-2018] Ph.D. in Economics, Roma Tre University
[2012] Master's degree in Political Science, University of Florence
Visiting
[2023-2025] International Inequalities Institute - London School of Economics (UK)
[2019] Computational Social Science, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
[2019] Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of Valencia Region, FISABIO-Salut Pública, Valencia (Spain)
[2017] Department of Computer Science, NLP research team, University of Sheffield, Sheffield (UK)
[2016-2017] Department of Economics and Finance, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (UK)
[2016] Office of the Executive Director EDS21, World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C. (USA)
[2016] Department of Operations and Systems Management, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (UK)
Courses
Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (January 7-10 , 2019, Alba di Canazei, Italy)
10th GATE Training Course: Mining social media content with GATE (June 26-30, 2017, University of Sheffield - UK)
Manage Successful Impact Evaluations (June 6-10, 2016, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC - USA)
Course on Impact Evaluation Techniques for Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices (October 5-9, 2015, Roma Tre University, Rome - Italy)
XXVI Course of Econometrics for PhD students CIDE (June 22-July 4, 2015, Bertinoro - Italy)
10th Edition of Advanced Course in Innovation, Growth and International Production. Model and Data Analysis (April 20-24, 2015, Sapienza University, Rome -Italy)
Seminars and Conferences
AISRe (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali) 2023 annual conference (September 6-8 2023, Naples).
11th Scientific Meeting of SIS Group - "Statistics for the Evaluation and Quality in Services" (August 30 - September 1 2023, Campus Pescara).
5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics – Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences (28 June – 30 June 2023 · Sevilla, Spain).
AISRe (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali) 2022 annual conference (September 5-7 2022 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan).
Keynote Speaker at the 4th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics – Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences – 29 June – 1 July 2022 · Valencia, Spain.
10th Scientific Meeting of the Research Group of Statistics for the Evaluation and Quality in Services (SVQS) of the Italian Statistical Society (January 27-28 2022 at the University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Caserta)
Conference on Non-traditional Data, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics (November 17-19, 2021, Bank of Canada, online)
The 62nd Annual Conference of the Italian Economic Association (October 26-28, 2021, online)
Comuni, bilanci e intelligenza artificiale: nuovi strumenti per la programmazione finanziaria? (October 15, 2021, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan)
XXI GDS17 meeting (October 4, 2021, Roma Tre University, Rome)
The 61st Annual Conference of the Italian Economic Association (October 20-23, 2020, online)
14th EAEPE Summer School: Pensions, Social Services and Welfare: What future in the age of financialization? (July 13-15, 2020, Roma Tre University, Rome)
S.I.E. - Società Italiana degli Economisti, Webinars (July 9, 2020, online)
International Web Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics (July 2, 2020, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - National Research Council of Italy, Rome)
La dimensione “ottima” del comune Fusioni, unioni, gestione unificata delle funzioni (May 22, 2020, Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
LAIBD Data Sprint (January 14-16, 2020, IFAD, Rome)
LISBON ADDICTIONS 2019 Third European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (October 23-25, 2019, Lisbon Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal)
FeDerSerD - VIII Congresso Elettivo Nazionale, LA CLINICA DELLE DIPENDENZE (October 9-11, 2019, Centro Congressi Hotel Michelangelo, Milan - Italy)
24th Annual Conference AIES - ITALIAN HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION (October 3-4, 2019, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Pisa - Italy)
2nd European Alliance for Personalised Medicine Congress, Forward as one: Integrating Innovation into Europe’s Healthcare Systems (November 26–28, 2018, Milan - Italy)
Towards the development of a Costs of Treatment Toolkit. Building a Toolkit: developing general guidelines, data and methods to estimate the costs of drug treatment in Europe (October 3, 2018, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon - Portugal)
XI Conferenza ESPAnet Italia (September 13-15, 2018, Università degli Studi di Firenze Polo delle Scienze Sociali, Florence - Italy)
VI International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics (June 26-28, 2018, National Research Council of Italy - CNR, Rome - Italy)
Equity in Education Workshop (November 30 - December 1, 2017, Faculty of Economics & Business, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium)
Società Italiana Degli Economisti, 58.ma Riunione Scientifica Annuale (October 19-21, 2017, Università della Calabria - Italy)
PROMETHEE Days 2017 (May 11-12, 2017, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth - UK)
Research Seminar of the Economics and Finance subject group (May 9, 2017, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth - UK)
4th Workshop on the Efficiency in Education (October 20-21, 2016, Politecnico di Milano School of Management, Milan - Italy)
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2016: Data and Development Economics (June 20-21, 2016, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC - USA)
Global Youth Forum 2016 (June 13-15, 2016, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC - USA)
2016 Global Leadership Forum (June 1-3, 2016, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC - USA)
Research Seminar of the Economics and Finance subject group (March 9, 2016, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth - UK)
13th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis - DEA2015 (August 24-27, 2015, Technische Universität - TU, Braunschweig - Germany).
6th EAAE PhD Workshop (June 8-10, 2015, Roma Tre University, Rome - Italy)
The Italian way towards Standard Expenditure Needs Workshop (June 6, 2014, Mef, Dipartimento delle Finanze, Sose, Rome - Italy)
Campus Mentis 2013 edition (October 2-4, 2013, Milan - Italy)
11th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis - DEA2013 (June 27-30, 2013, University of Samsun, Samsun - Turkey).
Teaching
Machine Learning in Economics and Business, Master in Data Science, University of Calabria 2021-2022
Machine Learning with economic applications, MATA school, University of Sassari 2021-2022
Machine Learning for Economists, European Ph.D. in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies, Sapienza University of Rome 2021-2022/2022-2023
An Introduction to Machine Learning and Text Mining for economists using Sata, Python and R, SIDE Summer School of Econometrics, Italian Econometric Association 2020-2021
Applied Development Economics, University of Molise 2023-2024
Cost-Benefit Analysis, University of Molise 2022-2023/2023-2024
Microeconomics, University of Molise 2020-2021/2023-2024
Economic Policy, University of Molise 2020-2021/2023-2024
Health Economics, Roma Tre University 2017-2018
Institutional Economics, University of Florence 2012-2014
Information Economics, University of Florence 2013-2014