Sociologist based in Milano, Italy. Mainly interested in:
- the link between relationships of economic exchange, solidarity, and inter-group conflict
- peer-review evaluation in scientific publishing
- integrating Social Network Analysis (SNA) with Agent-Based Modelling (ABM)
Assistant professor of sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan (Italy), member of the BehaveLab.
Teaching a graduate course on Social Network Analysis.
Author of Reti sociali. Meccanismi e modelli, covering my recent methodological studies on statistical and computational models of social networks, with a few empirical examples (for Italian readers). Here you can find a few presentation slides (in Italian) summarizing its content.
News
11-12-24: Today I was honoured to hold an invited presentation about “High-threshold complex contagion and negative ties in the diļ¬usion of stigmatized health measures: an empirical agent-based model” (with Elisa Bellotti, Francesco Renzini et al.) at a Symposium on Empirically-Calibrated Agent-Based Models for Mechanism-Based Research co-organised by the Institute of Advanced Study Toulouse and the Toulouse School of Economics. Here are my presentation slides.
28-11-24: Today I have presented my book Reti sociali. Meccanismi e modelli (Il Mulino, 2023) at the University of Turin (Italy). Here are my presentation slides.
24-10-24: Today I am presenting my book Reti sociali. Meccanismi e modelli (Il Mulino, 2023) within the Quantitative Social Science Seminars series of the University of Bologna (Italy). Here are my presentation slides.
17-10-24: A podcast interview (in Italian) by Gianluca Argentin on my book “Reti sociali. Meccanismi e modelli” (Il Mulino, 2023).