Since October 2025, I am Researcher Tenure Track (Assistant Professor) of Economic Statistics at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics of the University of Milano-Bicocca (UniMiB-DEMS), Italy. Moreover, since July 2025, I serve as Senior Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan, Italy, where I am vice-coordinator of the project "Una, sola e indivisibile: le tante Italie nel COVID" and supervisor of the micro-analysis unit.
In the past years I served as Junior Assistant Professor of Economic Statistics at UniMiB-DEMS (January 2022-September 2025), Associate Researcher at FEEM (February 2022-June 2025), and Post-doctoral researcher at UniBg-DIGIP (January-December 2021).
In July 2024 I obtained the Italian Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor (II Fascia) of Economic Statistics (SSD SECS-13/D2, GSD 13/STAT-02).
In 2021 I earned a Ph.D. in Statistics at UniMiB, with a dissertation on time series models for air quality monitoring and assessment of environmental protection policies in Lombardy, Italy. In 2017 I graduated in Statistics & Economics (M.Sc.) at UniMiB and in 2015 I graduated in Economics (B.Sc.) at UniBg.
Since August 2024 I joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES) as Associate Editor, while since July 2024 I serve as member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics (IJCEE).
My research activity and interests focus on environmetrics, statistics and econometrics applied to environmental, energy and socio-economic fields. From a methodological point of view, I often deal with high-dimensional time series, spatio-temporal and geostatistical models which require dedicated model selection algorithms and statistical learning approaches. In practice, my approach grounds on state-space models, linear mixed models with spatio-temporal effects, intervention analysis, and non-linearities in both space and time.
In my project I always attempt to deal with real and large datasets with practical problem-solving purposes. Among others, the most stimulating research streams focuses on:
Analysis and decomposition of multivariate and spatial time series using unobservable components and statistical learning methods, with several fields of application, such as labor market, pollution emissions and financial time series;
The statistical analysis of the impact of agriculture on society, economy and the environment, with a particular attention to the case of the Po Valley (Italy) and the European agricultural industry (e.g., use of spatio-temporal smalla area models to get reliable estimates of the agrarian carbon footprint in the Po Valley or using geostatistical models to investigate the determinants of concentration in the European agricultural market);
Development of methodologies for temporal and spatio-temporal statistical learning aiming at analyzing the impacts of events and policies (e.g., policies targeting the reduction of airborne pollutant levels in Italy and critical areas of Europe or the identification of structural breaks in labor market time trajectories due to policy interventions);
Development of macroeconometrics and statistics for the study of territorial development and spatial inequalities affecting the socio-economic pathway in Europe and Italy (e.g., investigating the remarkable spatial heterogeneity in the European social indicators or investigating the role of education and income inequality in determining a sustainable development of the society);
Investigation of the socio-economic effects of the re-armament process occurring in European and NATO countries. In particular, I'm interested in studying the historical trajectories of military expenditure and correlated social and macroeconomic indicators for Euro-NATO countries in relation to the main historical events and the process of re-arming.
Since October 2024 I am principal investigator for the project SCARFACE – Sequestering CARbon through Forests, AgriCulture, and land usE, with the partnership of Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria - Centro Politiche e Bioeconomia (CREA-PB), a research initiative funded by UniMiB which tackles the carbon sequestration capacity of agricultural activities in the Po Valley (Northern Italy). From 2021 to 2023 I was UniMiB member in the project AgrImOnIA (The impact of Agriculture on Air Quality emissions in Lombardy), a research project funded by Fondazione Cariplo aiming at investigating the role of agriculture in generating ammonia and particulate matter emissions in the Po Valley. Since 2020 I collaborate with researchers from the Lombardy Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (ARPA Lombardia) to integrate technical and contextual skills within the research framework and to develop tools and software for disseminating data on air quality and meteorology in Lombardy to a public audience.
Since July 2025 I am vice-coordinator and supervisor for the micro analysis unit for the project Una, sola, indivisibile: le tante Italie nel COVID at FEEM. It consists of a 24-months research project funded by the Fondo per la ricerca in campo economico e sociale (FRES) program of the Italian Ministry of University. The aim of the project is to conduct an in-depth analysis of territorial socio-economic inequalities in Italy and the role that the COVID-19 pandemic has played in widening them. In particular, the micro part of the project consists of exploring and understanding not only the variations in socio-economic fragility and resilience of local communities, but also identifying the most effective solutions to offer policy makers to mitigate these inequalities.
During the past years, I was appointed as visiting researcher at several international research centers, such as the Statistics Department at Harvard University (Boston, USA, 2022), the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK, 2023), the Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany, 2021 and 2022), and the University of Aveiro (Portugal, 2017 and 2019).
Since 2018 I collaborates as a researcher and data analyst on several projects in partnership with Italian research institutes, such as Greenpeace, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Sbilanciamoci.info, Associazione Economia & Sostenibilità, CGIL Lombardia and Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (IRS). In particular, in 2023 and 2024 I collaborated with Greenpeace to the development of the report "Arming Europe: military expenditure and their economic impact in Germany, Italy and Spain" on the topic of rearmament in Europe and the economic and social consequences of public investment in weapons.
