About
Professional experience
Evidence-based regional policy analysis through administrative, territorial and public-finance data; evaluation of municipal economic and financial sustainability under the Territorial Public Accounts framework.
Data-driven analytics on web-scraped, social-media and digital-trace data to monitor socioeconomic phenomena in real time. Text mining, readability measures and machine learning applied to public-sector communication, public services and territorial dynamics, with research outputs and policy reports for institutions and decision-makers.
Doctoral research at the intersection of applied economics and digital methods. Empirical studies using Difference-in-Differences, panel data econometrics, web scraping, machine learning and NLP, with applications to EU cohesion policy, public-sector digitalization, municipal communication and institutional quality. Visiting scholar at Universitat Politècnica de València (Jan–Jul 2024).
Empirical research on public-sector performance, healthcare efficiency and equity in the post-pandemic Italian health system, contributing to outputs on fiscal constraints and health inequality.
Data-driven analysis of food insecurity trends and determinants for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, combining text mining of textual sources with structured indicators to support evidence-based development policy.
Support to the Managing Authority on the implementation of the evaluation plan and impact evaluation of PON Research and Innovation 2014–2020: research mobility, public investment and EU Cohesion Policy.
Education
Thesis: Shocks, Public Policies, and Technological Progress: Four Essays on the Drivers of Innovation. Public economics · Policy evaluation · Development economics · Data analytics. Visiting scholar at Universitat Politècnica de València (Jan–Jul 2024, supervisor: Prof. Josep Domenech).
Microeconomics, macroeconomics, institutional economics, econometrics.
International trade, digital strategy, geopolitics.
Awards & memberships
- AwardAmerica Giovani Prize, Fondazione Italia USA — top 1,000 Italian graduates for academic excellence (2019).
- CredentialChartered Accountant — Albo Dottori Commercialisti (2022).
- CredentialStatutory Auditor — Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (2023).
- MembershipSocietà Italiana di Economia (SIE) · Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali (AISRe).
Advanced training
- SoBigData Academy CampSoBigData Research Infrastructure (2026) — Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Ethics and Social Data Analysis
- Advanced Econometrics & Applied Econometrics and Big DataLSE Summer School (2025) — Dr. M. Schafgans, Dr. M. Gmeiner; Prof. T. Komarova
- Modern Causal Inference: Bridging Theory and Practice6th Summer School in Advanced Economics — University of Ioannina, Spetses (2025) — Prof. J. M. Wooldridge, Prof. P. Sant’Anna
- Introductory Econometrics & Panel Data EconometricsSIdE — Prof. G. Calzolari (2024); Prof. M. E. Bontempi, Prof. R. Golinelli, Dr. I. Mammi (2024)
- Evaluation of Development PoliciesInternational School for Advanced Training — Prof. P. Montalbano, Prof. F. C. Rosati, Prof. C. Pietrobelli (2023)
- Professional Certificate in Data ScienceHarvard Online (2023)