Academic positions

Associate professor, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, 2024 - present.

Assistant professor (Ricercatore a tempo determinato, tipo b), Università degli Studi di Bergamo, 2021 - 2024.       

Assistant professor (Ricercatore a tempo determinato, tipo b), Università degli Studi di Verona, 2018 - 2021.       

Assistant professor (Ricercatore a tempo determinato, tipo a), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017 - 2018.       

Research fellow (Assegnista di ricerca), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2011-2017

Research fellow (Assegnista di ricerca), Bocconi University, 2009-2011.

Education

2006-2010: PhD in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

2004-2006: MRes in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

1999-2004: Laurea in Economia (Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e Sociali), Bocconi University, Italy.

Scholarships and awards

2004-2009:  ESRC scholarship 

2005-2007: “B. Stringher” scholarship from the Bank of Italy

2012: UniCredit "Best Ph.D. Thesis" award

2016: EIEF research grant for the project "Do Individual Heterogeneity and Spatial Correlation Matter? An Innovative Approach to the Characterisation of the European Political Space" (Principal Investigator)

Research interests

        Political Economy, Psychological Game Theory, Gender and Politics, Economics of Religion, 

Behavioural Economics.

Teaching experience

University of Bergamo: Public Economics, Environmental Economics, Introduction to Economics, Decision Theory, Law and Economics, Public Policy for Sustainability and the Environment, Game Theory (for PhD), Micro I (for PhD).

University of Verona: Introduction to Economics for Law undergraduate students.

University of Milan-Bicocca: Advanced Microeconomics. 

DEFAP PhD program: Public economics 

University of Lille I: Microeconomics (undergraduate).

Singapore Institute of Management (for the University of London External Studies): revision lectures of  Mathematical Economics,   Microeconomics, and Introduction to Economics

Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty (for the University of London External Studies): revision lectures of  Microeconomics, Industrial Organization