Hello! My work investigates how social change and the diversification of societies shape public perceptions and policies, which, in turn, affect individual lives and collective outcomes. I use natural and field experiments, large-scale administrative data collected in challenging contexts, and qualitative accounts to investigate how institutions and public opinion shape inequality and democracy. Much of my research focuses on minority integration and the social, political, and economic causes and consequences of mobility. My work is published in leading journals across sociology, political science, and economics, contributing to both scholarly debates and policy discussions.
In 2025, I was awarded the Raymond Boudon Award for Early Career Achievement.
In 2025/26, I was awarded
the Habilitation in Political Science,
the Habilitation in Political Economy,
and the Habilitation in Economic Sociology by the Italian Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca.
In 2025/26, I served as Chair of Quantitative Empirical Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) and Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Research. Before, I was Assistant Professor at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Torino (CCA), fellow at the University of Mannheim’s Center for European Social Research (MZES), and lecturer at the University of Basel (WWZ). I studied in Vienna, Urbana-Champaign, and Zurich before receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne and the Swiss National Science Foundation. I have also been a postdoctoral researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the University of Bern, and visiting researcher in Malmoe and Oxford.