Short Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. My research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, global value chains, and political economy, with a focus on structural interdependence, economic vulnerability, and the interaction between production, finance, and technological change.
My work combines input–output economics, network science, and macroeconomic modeling to study how shocks propagate through production networks and how structural configurations shape growth, distribution, and resilience. A central theme of my research is the coherence between economic theory and empirical evidence, drawing on classical, Keynesian, and structuralist traditions to inform quantitative analysis of contemporary capitalism.
I received my PhD in Economics from Marche Polytechnic University, with a dissertation on economic networks developed under the supervision of Mauro Gallegati and Alberto Russo. During my doctoral training, I was a visiting scholar at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, where I specialized in network analysis, and at the University of Essex, where I worked at the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents on complexity approaches to financial and production systems.
My research has been published in leading international journals, including Economic Systems Research, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Economic Modelling, World Economy, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, International Economics, and Journal of Policy Modeling. I am co-author of books on the political economy of war, peace, and capital centralization, and my work has contributed to debates on deglobalisation, geoeconomic fragmentation, industrial policy, and global production restructuring.
I am currently Editor of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature) and have served as guest editor for international symposia on the political economy of war and peace. My research activity combines academic inquiry with policy-oriented analysis, and I have been involved in projects and collaborations addressing industrial policy, global value chain resilience, and economic governance.
Before joining the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, I held academic positions at Marche Polytechnic University, where I also conducted postdoctoral research. I regularly teach courses in international economics, macroeconomics, and data-driven economic analysis at undergraduate, graduate, and PhD levels.