About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at LEMMA, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where I work on the ANR-funded BREAKING project (Behavioural Responses to Inequality as a Social Ranking). I hold a PhD in Cognitive, Computational, and Social Neurosciences from IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, with a specialization in behavioral and experimental economics.

My research asks how hostile and impulsive behavior arises, and what makes people cooperate, punish, or retaliate. I study these questions through the interplay of cognition, motivation, and social context: from the role of self-control and mental fatigue in aggression, to gender differences in hostility, to how social rank and inequality shape behavior. I also examine cognitive biases in the general population and risk preferences in healthy adults and Parkinsonian patients, with attention to their genetic and cognitive determinants.

Methodologically, I combine incentivized experiments in economics and psychology with EEG, psychometric questionnaires, and quantitative data analysis.

Before moving into economics, I trained as a clinical psychologist (MSc, University of Padua) and am a registered psychologist, with a background in neuropsychological assessment and forensic psychology.