Sociologist based in Milano, Italy. Mainly interested in:

• the link between relationships of economic exchange, solidarity, and inter-group conflict
• integrating Social Network Analysis (SNA) with Agent-Based Modelling (ABM)
• peer-review evaluation in scientific publishing

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) by Gianluca Argentin

News

12-2-25: A call for abstracts is open for a session on “Agent-based modelling and social networks” at 2025 Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, co-organised by me, Filip Agneessens, Jen Badham, and Károly Takács. The conference will be hosted by Sorbonne Université and Sciences Po in Paris (France), 23-29 June. Deadline: 20 February. Here is the call.

31-1-25: Today I will coordinate a session on “Experiments, computational models, and network analysis for the study of socio-economic phenomena” at the 9th Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Economic Sociology at the University of Pavia (Italy). Here is the programme with the 18 accepted contributions.

18-1-25: I am honoured to have participated to the 1st Italian Computational Social Science Conference at the University of Trento, where I have presented my work on “High-threshold complex contagion and negative ties in the diffusion of stigmatized health measures: an empirical agent-based model” (with Elisa Bellotti, Francesco Renzini et al.). Here are my presentation slides.

11-12-24: Today I was honoured to hold an invited presentation about “High-threshold complex contagion and negative ties in the diffusion 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.