About Me

I am a Professor of Public Economics at the University of Calabria, where I also serve as Director of the Center for Studies on Society, Health and Place. 

I am Deputy Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences and Coordinator of the Degree Programme in Public Administration. 

Previously, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Salerno and a Full Professor at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro. I earned my PhD in Economics from the University of Calabria and completed a PhD specialization in Health Economics and Policy at the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+).

I am an Associate Editor of Health Economics and Oxford Open Economics and serve on the Editorial Board of Economics and Human Biology. I was a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Health Economics Association (AIES) for the terms 2017–2020 and 2020–2023, and I am currently a member of the Scientific Committee of IWAEE.

My research focuses on health economics and policy evaluation, with a particular interest in the economics of risky behaviours and health and income inequalities. I have published in leading economic journals, including the Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, European Economic Review, and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, as well as in interdisciplinary journals such as Scientific Reports (Nature) and Food Policy.