I am Professor of Demography at the University of Bologna and an international co-investigator of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC).

I am the Principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant GENPOP: Genes, genealogies and the evolution of demographic change and social inequality

Projects:

• GENPOP — Genes, genealogies and the evolution of demographic change and social inequality (ERC Consolidator Grant)
• demopast — Historical Demographic Atlas of Italy
• newspop — News scraper for fertility and demographic decline research using GDELT

Research interests:

• Quantitative methods in social sciences.
• Sociogenomics
• Demography
• Social interactions
• Life course
• Migration and Ethnicity

Find my Curriculum Vitae here: CV