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Academic positions and affiliations

PhD researcher | University of Catania, Department of Economics and Business, Italy | November 2021 - Present

Methodological statistics lead research team member | Participation & Representation in the Digital Age (ERC grant), Israel | September 2023 - August 2025

Visiting PhD researcher | London School of Economics, Department of Methodology, United Kingdom | February 2024 - July 2024

Visiting PhD researcher | Leiden University, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Netherlands | August 2023 - January 2024

Research assistant | KU Leuven, Department of Economics, Belgium | June 2020 - August 2020, October 2020 - June 2021

Education

MSc in Economics | KU Leuven, Belgium

BSc in Economics | Lund University, Sweden

Industry experience

Data analyst | Cartel Damage Claims, Belgium | February 2021 - September 2021

Teaching activities

Guest lecturer | Latent Class Analysis, Faculty course, Erasmus University Rotterdam | June 2025

Guest lecturer | Latent Variable Models, MSc course, Leiden University | December 2023

Guest lecturer | Psychometrics and Structural Equation Modeling, MSc course, Leiden University | December 2023

Conference presentations

ACEI | International Conference on Cultural Economics of the Association for Cultural Economics International | Rotterdam, Netherlands | June 2025

APSA | American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition | Philadelphia, United States | September 2024

CMStatistics | Computational and Methodological Statistics conference of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics | Berlin, Germany | December 2023

CLADAG | Classification and Data Analysis Group conference of the Italian Statistical Society | Salerno, Italy | September 2023