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If you were to ask anyone who knows me what my biggest passion is, they would most likely tell you that it is demography, a discipline I fell in love with during my bachelor’s degree and towards which I have always been extremely passionate. I have been fortunate enough to turn my greatest passion into my profession.

I am a postdoctoral research fellow for the ERC-Consolidator project POPCLIMA – Population Dynamics under Global Climate Change at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna. I hold a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences awarded by the European University Institute (EUI).

I am interested in the impact of climate change on population dynamics and more generally in demographic phenomena of low- and middle-income countries, such as the interplay between female social status and infant and child survival and the influence of mothers’ reproductive behaviors on offspring mortality.

My work is based on quantitative analyses of large-scale data. I have worked with Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data and Survey on Health and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data.

I have worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna, at the Department of Social Sciences of the Humboldt University and at the Department of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.