Valeria Cirillo is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Department of Political Sciences), external affiliate of the Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and member of MinervaLab – Laboratory on Diversity and Gender Inequality – based at Sapienza University of Rome. She is also member of the board of the PhD School in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2023 she is associate editor of the Italian Economic Journal.

She was previously researcher in applied economics at the National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies in Rome. Previously, she was Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and at the Department of Statistical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome. She works on labour market dynamics, technologies, occupations, inequalities.

She published more than 40 research outputs, of which several in top-ranked international peer-reviewed journals. Journals of publication include: Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Papers in Regional Science, Studies in Higher Education, Industry and Innovation, Sustainability, Applied Economics, International Labour Review, Economia Politica, Intereconomics, Investigación Economica, Eurasian Business Review, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. She has also contributed to books edited by Springer Nature (Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics) and Routledge advances in heterodox economics (Varieties of Income Inequalities).