Experience

  1. Economist

    NowCasting-Economics Ltd
    • Project Manager - Lead Economist: Led the development of new high-frequency Dynamic Factor Models (DFM) for inflation and GDP growth.
    • Project Manager - Lead Economist: Developed a real-time nowcasting model for the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
    • Lead Economist: Re-engineered the company’s model codebase in Julia, achieving a 15x speed-up.

  2. Research Associate

    London Business School
    • Worked with Prof Lucrezia Reichlin and Prof Giovanni Ricco on the stability of the Phillips Curve in the US.
    • Studied the impact of oil supply shocks on prices and real activities for the US and the Euro Area. Work presented by Prof Reichlin at the 25th Annual DNB Research Conference (Amsterdam, November 2022) “Inflation strikes back: drivers and policy reactions”. Title of the presentation: “Inflation Puzzles”.

  3. Research Assistant

    Centre for Economic Policy Research
    • Research assistant for Prof Lucrezia Reichlin (London Business School), Prof Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics), Prof Veronica Guerrieri (Chicago Booth) and Michala Marcussen (Societe Generale).
    • Contributed to the 26th Geneva Report (2023) “The Art and Science of Patience: Relative Prices and Inflation”, analyzing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and Ukraine war on global inflation. Work presented at the 25th ICMB Geneva Conference on the World Economy.

Education

  1. PhD Economics

    UC San Diego
    • Advisor: Prof James D. Hamilton.
    • Head Teaching Assistant ECON120A, Prof Graham Elliott. Teaching assistant gratuate econometrics (ECON220B, ECON220C)

  2. MSc Economics & Finance

    Barcelona School of Economics
    • GPA: 9.37/10
    • Advisor: Prof Christian Brownlees.

  3. MSc Economics

    Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
    • GPA: 110/110 cum Laude and Academic Commendation
    • Advisor: Prof Giuseppe Ragusa

  4. BSc Economics

    University of Pisa
    • GPA: 110/110 cum Laude and Academic Commendation
    • Asvisor: Prof Lorenzo Corsini
Awards
Regents Fellowship
UC San Diego ∙ February 2023
Financial support for five years of graduate study.
Summer Research Fellowship
UC San Diego ∙ February 2023
Received funding to take part in a summer research program during the first and second year of graduate study.
UniCredit Foundation Masterscholarship
UniCredit Foundation ∙ February 2020
UniCredit Foundation offers scholarships for study at the most prestigious European institutions. I was selected as the winner for the Barcelona School of Economics.
Merit-Based Financial Aid
Barcelona School of Economics ∙ February 2020
Full tuition fee waiver, based on academic merit.