About

About: professional and academic path — PhD in Economics (Doctor Europaeus), research fellowships and a visiting period in València.

Professional experience

May 2025 — Jul 2026
Research Assistant
Regione Lazio — Regional Statistical System in Support of Regional Policies

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.

Regional statistics · Municipal finance · Policy evaluation
Sep 2024 — Present
Data Analysis Strategist
Instant Analytics

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.

Web scraping · Text mining · ML & NLP · Policy analytics
Nov 2022 — Apr 2026
PhD Researcher in Economics
University of Molise — Department of Economics — XXXVIII Cycle

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).

Causal inference · DiD · Public economics · Institutional analysis
May 2024 — May 2025
Research Assistant — PRIN Project
University of Molise

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.

Health economics · Public economics · Inequality
Aug 2023 — May 2024
Research Assistant — CIAT food insecurity project
University of Molise

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.

Food insecurity · Development · Text mining
Apr 2023 — Dec 2023
Junior Expert in Policy Evaluation
Eutalia S.p.A.

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.

EU Cohesion Policy · Impact evaluation · R&I programmes

Education

2022 — 2026
PhD in Economics — XXXVIII Cycle
University of Molise · Completed with Doctor Europaeus mention

Thesis: Shocks, Public Policies, and Technological Progress: Four Essays on the Drivers of Innovation. Supervisor: Prof. Giuliano Resce. Visiting PhD researcher at Universitat Politècnica de València (Jan–Jul 2024, host: Prof. Josep Domenech). Public economics · Policy evaluation · Development economics · Data analytics.

2017 — 2019
MSc in Management, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
University of Molise — LM-77, summa cum laude

Thesis: La relazione tra vincoli finanziari e innovazione: un’analisi su un campione di imprese (The relationship between financial constraints and innovation: an analysis of a sample of firms). Supervisor: Prof. Filomena Pietrovito. Microeconomics, macroeconomics, institutional economics, econometrics.

2019 — 2020
Master in Global Marketing Communication & Made in Italy
Italy USA Foundation

International trade, digital strategy, geopolitics.

Awards & memberships

Advanced training