Current position
September 2016 - current: Associate Professor, University "G. d’Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Previous positions
November 2008-August 2016: Assistant Professor, University "G. d’Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
August 2007-October 2008: Post-doc Research Fellow; University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
November 2006-July 2007: Post-doc Research Fellow, CEEAplA, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal.
Visiting positions
September 2019-November 2019: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Economic History, University of Salamanca, Spain.
September 2017-October 2017: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Economic History, University of Salamanca, Spain.
March 2011-April 2011: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
August 2009-September 2009: Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology, University of York, United Kingdom.
January 2005-December 2005: Visiting Ph.D. student, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Education
November 2003-November 2006: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Tor Vergata. Rome, Italy.
October 2002-July 2003: M.Sc. in Economics and Finance, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
November 1996-October 2001: BA in Economics, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Teaching
Economic Policy, Labour Economics
Research fields
Inequality and Poverty, Labour economics, Economics of Disability
Associations
President of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems (AISSEC), 2022-
Member of the executive committee of the Italian Association of Labour Economists (AIEL), 2010-2016.