Welcome! I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics, enrolled in a joint program between the Catholic University of Milan in Italy and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in France. I am conducting my doctoral work under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Montobbio and Prof. Lorenzo Cassi.

My research mostly focuses on applied macroeconomic development, studying the extent to which structural change and manufacturing remain engines of long-term growth. This interest has also led me to investigate the diverging patterns of industrialisation and deindustrialisation observed worldwide over the last sixty years. To address these questions, I reconstruct historical series at the two-digit industrial level to assess whether manufacturing activities matter equally for development and whether they differ in their exposure to the major changes underway since the 1980s. In the end, I aim to shed light on the levers countries can rely on to promote convergence, and on what makes industrial policies effective.

As part of my Ph.D., I have taken up visiting positions at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa and at two institutes of the United Nations University (UNU) — UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands, and, from September 2026, UNU-WIDER in Finland. In parallel, I am working as an Associate Statistical Researcher at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained a Master's in Development Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a Master's in Social Sciences and Economics from the Institute of Latin American Studies (Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle University).