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CURRENT POSITION
Since Dec/2019 - Research scientist, administrative data specialist
Statistical methods research support service, Institut National d’Études Démographiques, Aubervilliers, Paris (France)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Sep/2023 - March 2025 - Dean of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD)
Jan 2015 – Dec 2019 - Postdoctoral researcher & research scientist
Research on patterns of transition to adulthood of second generation’s immigrants in France using TeO survey & data scientist using French administrative data. Institut National d’Études Démographiques, Paris (France)
Jul 2012 – Dec 2014 - Postdoctoral researcher
Research on family dynamics: timing and type of first and second partnerships in Europe (GGS), non-cohabiting marriages in the world (IPUMS), financial transfers from grandparents to grandchildren in Europe (SHARE). Research fellow for the Progress Action Grant “Women mean business and economic growth- promoting gender balance on company boards”. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University. Milan (Italy)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jul 2014 – Nov 2014 - Coordinator of the Italian database on family and education policies
Collection of national family and educational policies from 1950s onward aimed at the update of Population Europe’s Population and Policy database PERFAR. Population Europe, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Berlin (Germany)
Dec 2009 – Dec 2011 - Junior researcher
Collection and analysis of data on immigrants living in the Province area and production of two annual reports addressed to local policy-makers; collection and analysis of data pertaining to the economic situation in the Province area and production of quarterly reports addressed to local policy-makers. Province of Modena, statistical department. Modena (Italy)
Feb 2009 – Jun 2009 - Junior researcher
Analysis of the professional integration of people with disabilities in the municipality of Modena. Poleis srl, Modena (Italy)
Mar 2004 – Jun 2004 - Junior researcher
Analysis of socio-economic indicators of immigrates using administrative data, within the EU project: ”UE-EQUAL-PROJECT IT-G-LOM-013“- Empowerment of foreigner workers and integration management”. Synergia srl, Milan (Italy)
EDUCATION
2011 - PhD in Demography
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, (Italy)
Thesis title: “Leaving the parental home in Italy. Are young adults’ intentions consistent with their behaviors?”
Supervisors: Alessandra De Rose, Alessandro Rosina (Cattolica university, Milan).
2008 - European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD)
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock (Germany) & Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris (France)
2007 - MSc degree in Statistics, Demographic and Social Sciences
University of Padua (Italy)
Supervisors: Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Laurent Toulemon (INED).
2004 - BSc degree in in Economics and Social Sciences
Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
Supervisor: Francesco C. Billari
TEACHING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Winter 2024 - Training course instructor
EDSD workshop “How to make a presentation or a poster?” (with P. Brandon, University of Albany) [4 hours]. Audience: 15 EDSD students. European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD), French Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) Aubervilliers, Paris (France).
Fall 2023 - Training course instructor
EDSD workshop “Searching and Accessing Survey Data and Databases in Demography” (with A. Caporali, INED) [4 hours]. Audience: 15 EDSD students. European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD), French Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) Aubervilliers, Paris (France).
Since 2020 - Training course instructor
“French administrative data access and use”. Audience: 5/10 INED researchers, statisticians, PhD students, interns. French Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), Aubervilliers, Paris (France).
Fall 2012 - 2014 (2 academic years)- Lecturer and teaching assistant
“Applications for Economics, Management and Finance” – multivariate statistics applied to economic and social sciences - course taught in English [20 hours of teaching; 40 hours of teaching assistance]. Preparation and delivery of lectures and tutorials, course design, preparation of online material, marking and assessment, and consultations with students. Audience: 100 students –BSc. Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
Winter 2013-2014 (2 academic years)- Teaching assistant
“Sociological Analysis” - course taught by Ross Macmillan in English [20 hours]. Marking, assessment, supervision and consultation with students. Audience: 50 students – MSc. Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
Winter 2013-2014 (2 academic years) - Lecturer
“International Demography” – course taught in English [4 hours]. Preparation and delivery of lectures and tutorials, course design, preparation of online material. Audience: 50 students – MSc. Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
Spring 2013-2014 (2 academic years)- Lecturer
“Population, development and migration” - course taught in English. [40 hours]. Preparation and delivery of lectures and tutorials, course design, preparation of online material, marking and assessment, and consultations with students. Audience: 50 students – MSc. Faculty of Political Science, Master in World Politics and International Relations, University of Pavia (Italy)
AWARDS
2019’s best Ipums-International published paper. Ferrari, G., & Macmillan, R. (2019). Until work do us part: Labour migration and occupational stratification in non-cohabiting marriage. Population Studies, 1-20
Poster Award (Poster Session 5). Vital events and economic conditions: testing the Malthusian theory on Northern Italy’s historical data (1650-1860), with A. Di Bartolomeo, G. Ferrari and E. Lapucci; XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference. Marrakech, Morocco, October 2009
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
June 2024: European Population Conference. Edinburgh (UK)
October 2023: Keynote speech invited talk "Developing a contextual database using census and other administrative data. The exemple of the Trajectoires et Origines 2 contextual database". Second workshop GESI project. LUISS University, Rome
April 2023: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA (USA)
February 2023: Italian Population Days. Rome (Italy)
June 2022: European Population Conference. Groningen (The Netherlands)
November 2020: Wittgenstein Centre Conference (online)
April 2020: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting (online)
January 2020: IV Convegno Società Italiana di Sociologia Economica (SISEC), Turin (Italy)
September 2019: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Study conference. Potsdam (Germany)
September 2019: European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) annual meeting. Lausanne (Switzerland)
May 2019: Cudep - 18e colloque national de démographie : Unions, des-unions, non-unions. Dijon (France)
April 2019: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Austin, TX (USA)
January 2019: Italian Population Days. Milan (Italy)
October 2018: Divorce conference. Tel Aviv (Israel)
June 2018: European Population Conference. Brussels (Belgium)
April 2018: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Denver, CO (USA)
November 2017: IUSSP International Population Conference. Cape Town (South Africa)
October 2017: Divorce conference. Anvers (The Netherlands)
September 2017: European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) annual meeting. Milan (Italy)
April 2017: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL (USA)
February 2017: Italian Population Days. Florence (Italy)
September 2016: European Population Conference. Mainz (Germany)
April 2016: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Washington DC (USA)
October 2015: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Study conference. Dublin, Ireland.
September 2015: British Society for Population Studies annual conference. Winchester, UK.
May 2015: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA, USA
February 2015: Italian Population Days. Palermo, Italy
May 2014: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, USA
January 2014: Alpine population Conference. La Thuille, Italy.
October 2013: GGS User Group Conference. Milan, Italy.
July 2013: PopFest annual population studies conference. Southampton, UK.
June 2013: Italian Statistical Society Conference Advances in Latent Variables. Brescia, Italy
April 2013: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana
February 2013: X edition of “Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione”. Bressanone, Italy
January 2013: Alpine population Conference. La Thuille, Italy.
June 2012: European Population Conference. Stockholm, Sweden
June 2012: 46th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. Rome, Italy
February 2011: Italian Population Days. Ancona, Italy
December 2010: European Population Conference. Vienna, Austria
December 2010: From intentions to behavior: reproductive decision-making in a micro-macro perspective. Vienna, Austria
September 2010: Padova Population Day. Padova, Italy
October 2009: IUSSP XXVI International Population Conference. Marrakech, Morocco
December 2008: IUSSP Seminar on Social Mobility and Demographic Behavior, IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography. Los Angeles, California
July 2008: European Population Conference. Barcelona, Spain
ACADEMIC SKILLS AND LANGUAGES
Statistical Software: Stata (advanced), R (intermediate), SAS (intermediate), SPSS (intermediate)
Data: Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), Integrated Public Use Microdata Series- International (IPUMS-I), Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Trajectoires et Origines (TeO), Trajectoires et Origines 2 (TeO2), Echantillon Démographique Permanent (EDP), French population census
Languages: Italian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent)