Sociologist based in Milano, Italy. Mainly interested in:

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

Assistant professor of sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan (Italy), member of the Behave Lab.

Teaching a graduate course on Social Network Analysis.

Associate Managing Editor at Sociologica - International Journal for Sociological Debate.

Member of the ISA - International Sociological Association (RC45 - Research Committee on Micro-Macro Modelling), the INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis, CSSI - Computational Social Science Italy, and SISEC - Italian Society of Economic Sociology.

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).