About me

Current position

From December 2020: Associate Professor in Public Economics, Ca' Foscari University, Department of Economics.

National Abilitation Full professor in Public Economics (11.12.23 - 11.12.35) and Political Economy (07.03.25 - 07.03.37). National Abilitation Associate professor in Public Economics (13.07.20 – 13.07.31).

Previous position

• December 2017 December 2020: Tenure-Track Researcher (RtD - B), Ca' Foscari University, Department of Economics.

• January 2016 – December 2017: Post-doc researcher, GATE (Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St Etienne), CNRS - University of Lyon. Supervisor : Prof. Marie Claire Villeval.

• December 2013 – December 2015: Post-doc researcher, University of Milano Bicocca. Supervisor: Prof. Giovanna Iannantuoni.

Education

• January 2010 – September 2013: PhD in Economics, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Nicolò.

• October 2007 – October 2009: Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Università degli Studi di Padova. 110/110 Summa cum laude. Advisor: Prof. Antonio Nicolò.

Research Funds (most relevant)

• PRIN-PNRR 2023, PI (with N. Montinari, co-PI). 211.101 Euro for the project “Advancing Gender Equality through Experiments: New Developments and Applications (AGEENDA)”;

• PRIN 2022, unit member (PI: Paola Profeta; co-PI: Francesca Barigozzi; Unit leader: Luca Corazzini). 257.384  Euro for the project “Gender Stereotypes and Women's Achievements (GENS)”.

Other Professional Activities

Lab manager VERALabEx

Supervisor of PhD students Enrico Longo (2018-2021, with Michele Bernasconi), Ludovica Spinola (2019-2023, with Giacomo Pasini),  Marco Diamante (2020-2024, with Luca Corazzini), Giulio Venturini (2025 - ongoing, with Pietro Dindo) and Salvatore Guido Alessandro De Marco (2025 - ongoing).

Internal referee, PhD candidate Matteo Aggio (PhD viva in 2019) and Fernando Garcia Alvarado (PhD viva in 2021) .

Coordinator of the new Bachelor Degree in Economics and Business (ENG - 2024 - ongoing); Member of the Teaching Committee of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Economics and Business and referring professor for the curriculum "Economics, Markets and Finance" (since 2022 - ongoing);

Member of the Board of Trustees of LEM (Laboratory of Economics and Management - UniPD); Associate member of GateLab, CERME, ESA, NeuroMi. 

Member of the organizing and scientific committee of the:

• Experimental and Behavioral Economics Workshop  (Ca' Foscari University, co-organized with Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), November, 23rd - November,  24th, 2023);

• 9th meeting of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Network (BEEN)  (Ca' Foscari University, January, 27th, 2023);  

• "VERA Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics” (Ca' Foscari University, June, 23rd - June, 24th, 2022);  

• "2015 Political Economy Summer School" (Alba di Canazei, Trento, June, 29th - July, 3rd, 2015); 

• "2014 Political Economy Workshop" (Catholic University, Milano, May, 12th-13th, 2014).

Member of the scientific committee of the:

• "2025 Florence Workshop on Behavioural and Experimental Economics" (University of Florence, May 8th - May 10th).

• "2024 Annual meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists ( ASSET)" (Ca' Foscari University, October, 31st - November, 2nd, 2024).

Previous positions: Department's Delegate for Communication (2020 - 2025). Member of the Teching Committee of Ca' Foscari PhD in Economics (2022 - 2025); Member of the Board of CRIEP (2018-2025); Member of the Teaching Committee of the Master's Degree Programme in Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities (2017 - 2023).

Referee for: Annals of Economics and Statistics, the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, the Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Experimental Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, Games, Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Public Economic Theory,  International Economic Review, Management Science, Review of Economics of the Household, the Journal of the Economic Science Association, PLOS One, Poverty and Public Policy, Scientific Reports, The Czech Science Foundation (GACR).