About

About me

"I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession [...]" - "The Sign of The Four" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will stop putting Sherlock Holmes quotes everywhere, but this is not the day!

I have always been curious, and somehow I got stuck doing research on the history of technology. My favourite time period is the British Industrial Revolution, but anything before the twenty-first century will grab my attention. Since I like a quantitative approach, I tend to mix in econometrics and see what happens. Just a heads-up!

Reach out at ssavini@uninsubria.it or sara.savini@u-bordeaux.fr

Education

[2023 - ongoing]
PhD in Methods and Models for Economic decisions @ University of Insubria (Varese, Italy)
PhD in Science économiques @ Bordeaux School of Economics (Pessac, France)

[Sept-Oct 2025]
Visiting Studentship @ University of Cambridge (UK)
Supervision: Dr. Alexis Litvine

[2021 - 2023]
M.Sc. in Economics of Innovation @ University of Insubria (Varese, Italy)
M2 in Economie de l’innovation et veille stratégique @ Université de Bordeaux (Pessac, France)

Presentations

[March 2026]
BSE Seminar Series, Bordeaux.

[January 2026]
ASSA 2026 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Organized by: Allied Social Science Associations – Hosted by: Cliometric Society

[December 2025]
Rencontres d’Histoire et d’Histoire Économique d’Agen – 4th Edition, Agen.

[October 2025]
Brown Coffee Seminar, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Organized by: CAM.POP @ University of Cambridge

[September 2025]
EHES 2025 Conference, Stuttgart, Germany.

[May 2025]
EBHS 2025 Conference, Birmingham, AL.

[April 2025]
EHS 2025 Conference, Glasgow.

[January 2025]
BSE seminar series.

Summer schools and Workshops

[May 2026]
Workshop in Applied Economics, Varese, Italy.

[June 2025]
REGIS Summer School, Bordeaux.

[June 2025]
SEW 2025 Workshop, St Etienne.

[November 2024]
REGIS REading Group in Innovation Studies.
Presentation of: Sohn, E., Seamans, R., & Sands, D. B. (2024). Technology adoption and innovation: The establishment of airmail and aviation innovation in the United States, 1918–1935. Strategic Management Journal, 45(1), 3-35. DOI: 10.1002/smj.3555

[July 2024]
KID2024 Knowledge dynamics, Industry evolution, Economic development, Nice (France). Summer school.
Organized by: CNRS, EUR ELMI - Université Côte d’Azur, EFELIA (3IA), and the PhD course in Innovation for the Circular Economy (Università di Torino)

Miscellanous experience

[2026 – ...]
Advisor on the Steering Committee of the "Global Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management" program at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

[2025 – ...]
Co-organizer of the PhD MMED Seminar Series at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

[2024 – 2026]
Student Representative in the PhD Board of the Doctoral School at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

[2025]
Vinci Scholarship 2025: funding to support binational academic projects between France and Italy – Chapter 2.
Promoted by: Università Italo-Francese – Université Franco-Italienne

[2024]
INNOVATION CAMP FOR PHD STUDENTS, held by the University of Insubria, as part of the Nodes-Spoke 3 project «Industria del turismo e della cultura». Open-badge.

Professional experience

[2025 – ...]
Tutoring in Economics, Management, and Law – Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (110h)
Personalized and group academic support; assistance to students and faculty in course management.
Courses mainly covered: microeconomics, macroeconomics, industrial economics, and, when needed, statistics.

[2024]
Research Assistant – Osservatorio MP4I
Processing descriptive statistics from a survey conducted by the Observatory on innovative and non-innovative Italian SMEs.

[2024]
Tutoring in Economics and Management – Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Personalized academic support and student assistance

[2021 - 2022]
Intern – Ufficio Studi e Statistica
Camera di Commercio di Varese.

Data collection for the update of the Recovery Monitor and other thematic reports published on their website

Processing of data requests from public and private entities
Creation of reports on the socio-economic aspects of the territory with the results of the surveys, published on the website

CV / fr

savini_cv_fr_2004.pdf

CV / en

savini_cv_en_1906.pdf

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