Researcher and trained economist with policy background and extensive experience in large-scale complex projects involving academia, international organizations and the private sector. My research is interdisciplinary in approach, primarily conducted through large EU-based consortia of scholars, and major collaborative policy development initiatives.

Currently, I am Postdoctoral Researcher RTD-A at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Formerly, Research Economist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Milan, and Economic Policy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Milan (Milan, Italy) and an MA in Economics and Finance with First Class Honours from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK).

Research interests. Advancing transdisciplinary methods and theory in Health Economics and Policy, Demography, Labour and Life Course Approach. I have an affectionate regard to topics contiguous to the Governance of Health, particularly along the lines of healthy ageing, structural and psychosocial determinants of individual and population health and well-being, life course perspectives to work and health, job stressors and socio-economic determinants of health and well-being, in the wider, dynamic context and geography of global development.

Policy experience fields (research supporting policy processes and interventions for both private and public sector organizations): applied population research; sustainable health planning and health research methodologies; healthy aging and longevity; work-family policies; employee training and development policies; resilience, innovation and specialisation strategies; interregional development; social cohesion; systemic governance.