Awards & Grants

2024 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (EUTOPIA-SIF 4th Call, Grant Agreement No. 945380)
Awarded a prestigious 2-years international research fellowship under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions cofunded program, EUTOPIA-SIF (Science and Innovation Fellowship).
Award declined due to incompatibility with ongoing appointment at Sciences Po médialab.
Research project title: VERB-AI-TMs – Validating, Explaining, Refining and Benchmarking AI Technologies for Management and Related Studies
The project proposal focused on developing and evaluating artificial intelligence tools for socio-economic analysis, with particular attention to transparency, accountability, and bias emergence in human-AI systems.
Research area: Data & Intelligence
Certificate of award: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J5meAZTl5oiUBQXvOOpAoFIKKO3sv3Hk/view

2024 | Research Fellowship - Sciences Po médialab, for the EU project SoMe4Dem
Was awarded a  21 months fellowship (June 2024 – February 2026) to work at Sciences Po médialab on the European project SoMe4Dem, to which I had previously contributed as co-author of the research proposal.

2023 | Honorary Mention – Citizen Science EU Awards at Ars Electronica Festival 2023
As Research, Methods, and Technology Lead for AquaGranda: A Digital Community Memory Project, I led the development of participatory research methodologies and digital tools to preserve and analyze climate change-related community memory.
The project received an Honorable Mention at the 2023 Citizen Science EU Awards, hosted during the Ars Electronica Festival, in recognition of its innovative citizen engagement and participatory research strategy.

Jury Statement : The impacts of the climate emergency are increasingly felt around the globe. Addressing the consequences on a coastal community, the AquaGranda project gathered an open-data archive of the 2019 Venice flood after which it is named, and crowd-sourced memories and meaning-making using digital platforms. The project involved artists and scientists alongside citizens in responding to these diverse inputs about the flood, creating online and offline knowledge and artworks that provide insights into the human and social-scale repercussions of living with climate precarity.
Project website: http://www.aquagrandainvenice.it/en/
Event: https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/
AquaGranda honorary mention: https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/aquagranda-a-digital-community-memory 

2022 | Assistant Professor Research Grant – PON Ricerca e Innovazione REACT-EU
Received funding, as Assistant Professor (RTD-A), under the EU’s PON (Programma Operativo Nazionale) Research and Innovation initiative, REACT-EU, supporting high-level research aimed at promoting digital transformation and societal resilience.
Grant details:

• https://www.unive.it/pag/49023/

• https://www.unive.it/data/38002/?id=2021-UNVE000-0110310
  
  

2021 | Best Paper Research Award – Venice School of Management, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Venice School of Management 2021  research award recognized for outstanding scientific publication. Awarded for the article: “Google search volumes and the financial markets during the COVID-19 outbreak?” published in Finance Research Letters.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101884
Award announcement: https://www.unive.it/pag/46336/

2021 | Research Fellowship – Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, for the EU Project ISEED
Was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship (July 2021 – June 2023) to work on the European project ISEED, to which I had previously contributed as co-author of the research proposal.
The position was left in December 2021 after being awarded the EU Research Grant – PON Ricerca e Innovazione REACT-EU, which was not compatible with the previous fellowship.

2020 | Research contract – Venice International University, for the EU Project MUHAI
Was awarded a four-year (Co.Co.Co) contract (October 2020 – September 2024) to work on the European project MUHAI, to which, together with Luc Steels,  I had previously contributed as the co-ideator of the Social Inequality Observatory concept and design, later integrated into the MUHAI project proposal.

2019 | Research Fellowship - Venice School of Management, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Was awarded and subsequently renewed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship to work on issues related to uncertainty and risk perception, and their impact on financial market volatility, in collaboration with GAM Investments.

2014 | PhD  Scholarship - Department of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Was awarded a PhD scholarship funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).