Sociologist based in Milano, Italy. Mainly interested in:

• the link between economic exchange, solidarity, and inter-group conflict
• the impact of social relationships on health
• integrating Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) into Social Network Analysis (SNA)
• 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).

News

21-5-26: Today I will talk about my work in progress on “Nodes that think: An empirical agent-based model of advice giving grounded on framing and memory” (with Francesco Renzini). Here for my presentation slides.

29-4-26: I am honoured to act as discussant of Daniel Little’s seminar on “Rethinking analytical sociology” at the University of Turin, along with Davide Barrera. Here for more information.

30-3-26: I am happy to start today my course for political and social science PhD students on Social Network Analysis. We will learn how to conduct an empirical network research project from design to analysis. I will be uploading teaching material here.

25-3-26: Today I am happy to hold a guest lecture on “Social networks: Mechanisms and models” for the PhD students of the Department of Political Science, Communication, and International Relations of the University of Macerata (Italy). Here for my presentation slides.