Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

@ Newcastle University 

I’m a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at Newcastle University Business School. Before joining Newcastle, I studied Economics and Public Policy in Italy and Spain, completed a PhD at University College Dublin, and spent time as a visiting PhD student at Bocconi–CLEAN, where I am now a research fellow. I originally trained in Philosophy at the University of Milan, which gave me a rigorous foundation in logic, semantics, and pragmatics.

My research is fundamentally about the rules of the game,who breaks them and who enforces them. You can call me an economist of crime.

Alongside research, I teach statistics and econometrics and supervise undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students. I also serve as Research Community Lead and PhD convenor for the Economics group. 

I am originally from Salorno, a beautiful village in South Tyrol, where I spent my teenage years and early twenties teaching theatre to children, working in the local grape harvest, singing in the village choir, and playing far too much Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, experiences that taught me community, patience, and the value of hard work long before I became an economist.