Sociologist based in Milano, Italy. Mainly interested in:

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. Here is an English presentation. Here is a podcast interview (in Italian).

News

4-6-25: Today I will be honoured to join the inaugural meeting of the consortium between NYU’s Agent Based Modeling Lab and the Behave Lab at the School of Global Public Health of the New York University. I will be presenting a work in progress on “Complex contagion and malaria prevention” (co-authored with Elisa Bellotti, Francesco Renzini et al.).

28-5-25: Today I will act as discussant to a seminar by Rainer Hegselmann (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany), “Computational social epistemology: A case study on two-armed bandits versus inductive truth seekers and epistemic free riders” at my university department. Here for more information.

19-5-25: Today I will act as discussant to a seminar by Christoph Stadtfeld (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), “The emergence of social networks between university students”, at the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan. Here for more information.

24-2-25: Today I will act as discussant to a seminar by Marian Gabriel Hâncean (University of Bucharest, Romania), “Exploring Rural Health Through Living Labs: Dynamic Networks as Social Determinants of Cancer”, at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. Here for more information.