Courses a.y. 2024/2025
I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences. I teach Applications for Management, Sociology and Computational Social Science.
Biographical note
I hold a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Bologna. During this time, I was a visiting student at Sciences Po Paris and at the London School of Economics.
I conducted my doctoral studies in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
I am the PI of a PRIN-PNRR 2023 grant and the PI of a Cariplo 'Young researchers' grant.
I am a member of Dondena, Baffi-Carefin and IEP@BU.
Research interests
Social and political attitudes; Intergroup attitudes; Technological and demographic change; Research methods for the digital society
Selected Publications
Social and political trust diverge during a crisis
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2024
COVID-19 policy interventions and fertility dynamics in the context of pre-pandemic welfare support
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Forthcoming
An online experiment during the 2020 US-Iran crisis shows that exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2022
The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Italy
HEALTH ECONOMICS, 30(7): 1703-1710, 2021
Early assessment of the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and births in highincome countries
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 118 (36): e2105709118, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and human fertility
SCIENCE, 369(6502): 370-371, 2020
The implications of ridehailing for risky driving and road accident injuries and fatalities
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 250: 112793, 2020