Current Position: Researcher at CREA (Council of Agricultural Research and Economics) in Rome.
Education & Training: 2005-2009 PhD in applied Economics. Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, Italy.
June 2000 Degree in Economics - University of Messina, Italy.
Research Fellowships and Research Assistantships
S4G - Breeding and integrated pest management strategies to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides in grapevine. Funded by the European Commission GA101135088. Co-Leader of WP4
SUPPORT January 2023-December 2026 - Supporting Uptake Integrated Pest Management and Low-Risk Pesticide Use. Funded by the European Commission GA101084527. Member of the CREA–PB research team involvement in WP2 and WP4.
Trade4SD – Trade for Sustainable Development (H2020) 2021 – 2025. Fostering the positive linkages between trade and sustainable development Funded by the European Commission GA101000551. CREA Coordinator of project activities; Leader of WP2, WP4, and WP6.
January 2018 – October 2022 National Research Project: SBEVAL sub-project within BIOTECH (Sustainable Biotechnologies for Italian Agriculture) and AgriDigit (Digital Agriculture), funded by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Since October 2022: Responsible for the SBEVAL sub-project.
February 2017 Research Projects Participations: FP7 EnReMilk Project: "Integrated engineering approach validating reduced water and energy consumption in milk processing for wider food supply chain replication". CREA-PB, Rome, Italy.
March 2015 - February 2016 Research Assistant/Associate Department of Economic, Management, Society and Institutions (SEGES) University of Molise.
February 2015 - March 2015: Research Projects Participations: ILLIAD. “Sustainable, local or localized, innovative food chains”. Funded by Funded by ANR (the French Research Agency)’s ALID Research programme "Sustainable Food Systems”.
January 2014: Research Projects Participations: Sustain’ Apple project ANR (the French Research Agency)’s ALID Research programme “Sustainable Food Systems”.
September 2011 - October 2013 Post-doc Fellow Department of Economics and Statistics University of Calabria & UMR INRA MOISA Montpellier.
March 2010 - March 2011 Post-Doc Fellowship. Department of Public Economics – INRA AgroParisTech Paris, France.
March 2010 - March 2011 Research Projects Participations: FP7 NTM IMPACT “Assessment of the impact of non-tariff measure on the competitiveness of the EU and selected trade partners”. Department of Public Economics – INRA AgroParisTech Paris, France.
January 2010 – April 2010 Research Assistantship: Prin2007 PUEC&PIEC. Department of Economics and Statistics University of Calabria, Italy.
November - December 2009 Research Assistantship: Progetto ANCO2 e VAPRO1A - PIANO REGIONALE PER LE RISORSE UMANE - PIANO D'AZIONE 2008 - POR FSE CALABRIA 2007-2013. Department of Economics and Statistics – University of Calabria, Italy.
July 2009 – December 2009 Research Assistantship: FP7 AGFoodTrade - “NEW ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL, FOOD AND BIOENERGY TRADE”. Department of Economics and Statistics – University of Calabria, Italy.
January 2009 – September 2009 Research Assistantship: Prin2007 PUEC&PIEC. Department of Economics and Statistics – University of Calabria, Italy.
March 2008 – January 2009 Fellowship: Misura 3.7 Azione A del POR Calabria 2000-2006. Department of Economics and Statistics – University of Calabria, Italy.
June 2007 to January 2008 Research Assistantship: FP6 “TradeAG, Agricultural Trade Agreements”. Department of Economics and Statistics – University of Calabria, Italy.
January 2007 to May 2007 Research Assistantship. Department of Economics and Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
September 2006 to May 2007 Research Assistantship: FP6: “TradeAG, Agricultural Trade Agreements”. Department of Economics – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Peer review activities:
Agricultural Economics; Food Policy; Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies; Eastern European Economics; European Research of Management & Business Economics; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; European Academy of Management and Business Economics; International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research; Rivista di Economia Agraria.
Reviewer for: European Association of Agricultural Economists 2014, 2017, 2019 Conferences; IFAMA- WICANEM 2016 Conference; International Association Agricultural Economics 2015 Conference; European Association of Agricultural Economists PhD workshop 2015, 2019. Associazione Italiana di Economia Agraria e Applicata.