Current Position
Research Scientist, since 09/2016
Labour Market department, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg
Adjunct Teacher, 9/2023-9/2026
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Affiliated researcher, since 7/2016
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium
Research fellow, since 5/2018
IZA, Bonn, Germany
Research Fellow, since 3/2019
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht, the Netherlands
Corresponding member, since 9/2019
IRES, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
ADR supervision rights at Doctoral Programme in Economics and Management Sciences (Economics), University of Luxembourg
Italian National Academic Qualification as Full Professor (level I): Political Economy (13/A2) until 03/2037
Italian National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor (level II): Economic Statistics (13/D2) until 06/2033; Econometrics (13/A5) until 03/2037
Related Work Experience
Team Leader, 02/2017-05/2018
“Regional Policies and Cross-Border Employment”, Labour Market department, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg
Postdoc, 01–06/2016
Ghent University, Belgium
Internship (Blue book) - European Commission, Brussels, 04–07/2011
Secretariat of the Economic and Financial & Economic Policy Committees
Teaching and PhD students
Examiner - Difference-in-Differences by prof. Clément de Chaisemartin, PhD in Economics, University of Luxembourg, 4/2025
Thesis supervisory committee (CTE), Marco Morelli, PhD in Economics, University of Luxembourg, foreseen from 10/2024
Adjunct Teacher - Advances in Causal Inference II, PhD in Economics, University of Luxembourg, 6/2024
PhD jury member - Nathan Lachapelle (Université Catholique de Louvain), private defense, 5/2024
Econometrics III, Master in Financial Economics, University of Luxembourg, 11-12/2023
Examination committee of Filomena Mattia (Università Politecnica delle Marche), 4/2023
PhD jury member - Brecht Neyt (Ghent University), March 2020 – public defence 19/08/2020
Career breaks
Parental leave (half-time): 12/2020-12/2021
Conferences organization
Organizer for course on Difference-in-differences (Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin), LISER, Luxembourg, 3-4/2025
Organizer for workshop on Cross-Border Labour Mobility & Data Linkage, LISER, Luxembourg, 2/2023
Scientific committee for Colloque frontaliers, congress on cross-border employment, LISER. Stakeholder: network Cahiers de la Grande Région, Statec, IDEA foundation, Agape Lorraine Nord and UniGR Center for Border Studies. 5-6 mai 2022.
Organizer for conference programs: 28th Annual Conference of European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Ghent
Reviewer for conference programs: 25th Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE 2021)
Education
Ph.D. (joint programme) in Economics, 2011/2015
Ghent University (Belgium) joint with Defap Graduate School (University of Milan-Bicocca and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Italy)
1st year: 14 preparatory courses , 2nd year: 3 courses & research, 3rd-4th year: research
Thesis: “Employment of young and older workers: three policy evaluations” . Evaluation: "Excellent"
Advisors: Prof. Cappellari & Prof. Cockx. Referees: Prof. Lechner & Prof. Leonardi
M.Sc. Economic Sciences, 110/110 Summa cum Laude, 2008–2011
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
Thesis: “The impact of European Structural Funds on Small-Medium Enterprises – A Conditional Difference-in-Differences analysis”
B.Sc. Business and Economics, 110/110 Summa cum Laude, 2005–2008
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
Visiting Periods
VisitINPS project: Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS), Rome (Italy), 2016
Visiting research period for doctoral studies: University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Prof. M. Lechner, 11/2014
Visiting Period for Master’s Thesis: University of Copenhagen (Denmark), 9/2010-3/2011
Exchange period for Master’s degree: University of Lund (Sweden), 8/2009-7/2010
Attended Summer Schools and Training
Introduction to Python for Data Analysis - Statistical Horizons, 06/2022
Causal Mediation Analysis - Statistical Horizons, 05/2022
Data Wrangling with R - Statistical Horizons, 04/2022
GitHub for Data Analysis - Statistical Horizons, 03/2022
Text Mining, Prof. Kwartler - GSERM St. Gallen, 01/2022
The Reduced Form - Difference-in-differences, Prof. Wooldridge– ÊSTIMATE, 12/2021
Regression Discontinuity Design, Prof. Titiunik – Statistical Horizons, 10/2021
Difference-in-differences, Prof. Sant'Anna – Statistical Horizons, 10/2021
LISER Winter school on Causal mediation analysis and machine learning – Prof. Huber, Luxembourg 02/2020
Introduction to Machine Learning for Causal Inference, Prof. Imbens – EuroCIM, Bremen 03/2019
Econometrics of Big Data, Prof. Chernozhukov & Prof. Hansen - GSERM St. Gallen, Ljubljana 08/2018
LISER School, Introduction to R and Statistical Learning, Prof. Gottard, Luxembourg 06/2018
Machine Learning and Econometrics, Prof. Athey & Prof Imbens, AEA, Online class 01/2018
LISER School, Methodologies for Impact Evaluation. Prof. Rubin, Prof Mealli & Prof Flores-Lagunes 07/2017
LISER Autumn School Theory and practice of programme evaluation. Prof. Mealli 10/2016
IIPF Doctoral School 2016 - ZEW, Mannheim. Prof. Pistaferri & Prof. Zweimüller 06/2016
DEFAP/LASER Summer School in Microeconometrics: Prof. Todd & Prof. Lindeboom 06/2014
Barcelona GSE: Linear & Dynamic and Non-linear Panel data: Prof. Baltagi & Prof. Jiménez-Martín 07/2013
Data Collection Projects
Interconnecting social security data of Belgium (BCSS) and Luxembourg (IGSS) to study cross-border employment in the Great Region of Luxembourg (ongoing)
Contribution to the 2018 Household Finance and Consumption Survey - Cross-Border Workers (XB-HFCS) of the Central Bank of Luxembourg
Scientific Software
Excellent: Stata. Medium: R, Latex. Basic: Matlab, Python, C++, SQL, Visual Basic
Languages
Italian (native), English (C2), French (B1), Romanian (A2)