Sociologist based in Milano, Italy. Mainly interested in:

• the link between economic exchange, solidarity, and inter-group conflict
• the impact of social networks on health
• integrating Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) with 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 Behave Lab.

Teaching a graduate course on Social Network Analysis.

Member of the editorial board of 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).