Welcome!

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in economic sociology at the Department of Social and Political Science of the University of Bologna (Italy). I am the principal investigator of the project Social Investment and Technological Change: Mitigating Inequality in the Knowledge Economy, which aims to study drivers and moderators of different forms of wage inequality in the knowledge economy.

Before joining the University of Bologna, I was a postdoctoral researcher in political economy at the School of Social and Political Science of the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), where I collaborated on the development of the Knowledge Economy Index. Previously, I was a doctoral researcher in Social Policy at the University of Bremen (Germany), where I researched the global diffusion of social policy and co-created the Welfare State Information System in a collaborative effort between computer and social scientists.

I received my PhD in Political Science from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science in 2022 with a thesis on public policy diffusion.

My research fields are comparative political economy, public policy, comparative politics, and political behaviour.  

My current areas of interest include the impact of new technologies on the labour market and, more broadly, socioeconomic transformations in advanced capitalist countries. I am also interested in patterns of inequality and redistribution and public policy, particularly education and training. 

For more information on my current research activity, see the Research section.