I am Assistant Professor (RTDB) of Economics at the Department of Social and Economic Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics, and carried out research activities at Italy’s Ministry of the Economy and Finance (MEF: Directorate I – Economic and Financial Analysis) and at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). My research interests mainly focus on environmental macroeconomics, fiscal policy, and macroeconomic modeling for policy analysis.

I worked for the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy), where I managed, updated and estimated the Global Multi-country Model (GM) for Euro-Area countries.

I used to work for Sogei SpA (Italy’s Ministry of the Economy and Finance, MEF: Directorate I – Economic and Financial Analysis) where I managed and updated the Italian version of QUEST III with R&D that is one of the latest versions of the class of Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) models developed by the European Commission for simulation analysis.

Moreover, I worked for the development of a new DGE for the Italian economy (IGEM, Italian General Equilibrium Model) and the construction of GEEM (General Equilibrium Environmental Model), a large-scale DGE model for policy analysis including climate-energy variables.

I got a degree in Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome where I also attended post-graduate studies gaining a PhD in Economics in May 2007.

I worked as a teaching assistant at LUISS University in Rome for one year; then, I was a lecturer at Tuscia University of Viterbo where I taught Economic Policy and Econometrics for four years (2007-2010). 

I also worked as a consultant for several national research institutes and institutions within the Italian Government (Commissione Tecnica per la Finanza Pubblica - Segreteria Tecnica).