Hello! I am an LSE Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology. I recently obtained a  PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE).

My research focuses on elite networks, historical sociology, and computational text analysis. My PhD thesis examines the historical evolution of royal networks between 1870 and 1953, as a case study that sheds light on how hierarchical institutions adapt to democratisation. In my research I use web-scraping techniques, optical character recognition, named entity recognition models to extract names of individuals (N > 500,000) and locations (N > 100,000) from the Court Circular, social network analysis, name matching algorithms, and Google APIs.

Before my PhD at LSE, I earned a BSc in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Pisa, a BSc from Sorbonne University (Paris IV), and an MSc in Sociology from LSE. I have been a Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po Paris (CEE) in 2022, and at the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung in 2025. Previous to the PhD, I was a Market Research Analyst at Euromonitor International in 2019, and a Research Assistant at Groningen Univerity in 2018.