Work

Working Experiences

• Scientific Officer @ European Commission DG-JRC   ///  April 2017 - April 2023 (6 years)

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC DG-JRC), calle Inca Garcilaso, 3, 41092, Sevilla (SE), Spain.

Web site: ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/about/jrc-site/seville

Over six years, I conducted activities within projects covering: (i) Geo-political Analysis of Key Techno-Economic Sectors (Artificial Intelligence, Photonics, Earth Observation, Digital Technologies). Project names: AI-Watch, TES, DG-TES; (ii) Investigation of the University Offer of Advanced Digital Skills (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cybersecurity, High-Performance Computing). Project name: Academic Offer of Digital Skills; (iii) Analysis of Trends in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector. Project name: Predict.

Key activities:

• Scientific analysis for policy support

• Authoring policy briefs, technical reports, and drafts

• Data analysis & machine learning techniques

• Visual data representations and dashboard preparation

• Creation and management of databases

• Research and development of scientific articles

• Post doc research fellow @ UniMoRe   ///  June 2016 - March 2017 (10 months)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Economics, viale Berengario 51, 41121, Modena (MO), Italy.

Research Collaborator in the "Energie Sisma Emilia" Project, managed by Professor Margherita Russo and focused on the socio-economic impacts of the 2012 earthquake.

Key activities:

• Development and management of databases

• Data analysis (inference) of the survey

• Research and development of methodologies for complex systems and complex network analysis

• Recording of a 12-lesson course on STATA software for a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

• Research fellow @ UniMoRe   ///  May 2014 - May 2016 (2 years)

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Economics, viale Berengario 51, 41121, Modena (MO), Italy.

Research Collaborator in the "Poli.In" Project, managed by Professor Margherita Russo and focused on studying the innovative policy cycle of the Tuscany Region (2011–2013).

Key activities:

• Creation and management of databases

• Retrieval and integration of information from previous cycles of regional policies

• Analysis and drafting of the final report

• Research on complex networks, complex systems, and innovation policies

• Trainee @ Italian Consulate in Sydney (NSW, AU)   ///  September 2012 - November 2012 (2 months)

Consulate General of Italy in Sydney (AU)- 44 Market Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Internship within the MAE-CRUI Project (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Key activities:

• Back-office tasks

• Press review

• Editing of a guide for Italian residents in Australia for emergency situations

• Data collector/interviewer @ R&I-Carpi   ///  May 2012 - August 2012 (4 months)

R&I, Via Carlo Marx 95, 41012 Carpi (MO), Italy.

Collaborator in the "IcesMO 2012" Survey, a study on the socio-economic conditions of families in the Province of Modena.

Key activities:

• Identifying subjects to be interviewed

• Explaining and assisting with the completion of the questionnaire

Invited Seminars & Lectures

• Invited lecturer (2 hours) in the class “History of Consumption and Marketing Models” within the Ph.D. programme in "Management & Law", Department of Management, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. July 2020

• "Information Flow Simulations in the Investigation of Economic Complex Systems", Seminar for the UCL Financial Computing Group,  Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK. February 2020. Link 

• Invited lecturer (6 hours) in the class “History of Consumption and Marketing Models” within the M.A. in “Management and Enterprise Communication”, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. April 2018

• Lecturer of 12 lessons in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) regarding the use of Stata software. Available on Eduopen (learn.eduopen.org). University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Economics, viale Berengario 51, 41121 Modena (MO), Italy. October 2016

• "Detection of communities of agents interacting through regional innovation policies", Seminar at Department of Economics 'Marco Biagi', University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. March 2016

• "Emergent competence networks in a regional innovation system", Department of Economics 'Marco Biagi’, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. December 2014

Scientific Reviewer

• Waste Management (2020)

• Palgrave Communications (2020)

• Lecture Notes in Social Networks (2019)

• Italian Journal of Applied Statistics (2018)

• Wivace Conference: Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (since 2017)

And also...

• Basketball coach and educator of children/teenagers (from 6 to 17 years old)

From 2005 to 2011, and then again from 2013 to 2014

At Scuola Basket Modenese, Viale dello Sport 25, 41100 Modena (MO), Italy