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Alumni

Former PhD candidates now work as postdoctoral research fellows, assistant professors, etc. in well-reputed Italian and international universities (e.g., Paris-Sorbonne, Utrecht University, University of York, New School New York, Cornell University, University of Bielefeld, Sciences Po, University of Strasbourg), research institutions (e.g., UN-ECLAC, ECB, Bank of Italy, STATEC-Luxembourg, OECD-Paris, JRC-Seville, Italian Ministry of Economic and Finance), and in the private sector (e.g., UBS).


Giuliana Freschi

PhD Award Year: 2024
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: The Family Burden: Social mobility and infant abandonment in 19th-century Italy
Supervisor: Alessandro Nuvolari
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Demetrio Guzzardi

PhD Award Year: 2024
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Warning unequal: income distribution, fiscal system, and the impact of climate change in Italy
Supervisor: Andrea Roventini
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Julia Mazzei

PhD Award Year: 2023
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Patents: Post-grant review, disclosure and firms’ strategies
Supervisor: Arianna Martinelli
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Lorenzo Cresti

PhD Award Year: 2023
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Enrico Fermi Research Center, Rome
Dissertation: International division of labour, knowledge flows and productive capabilities: an Input-Output analysis
Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi and Maria Enrica Virgillito
 

Marco Martinez

PhD Award Year: 2023
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Four Essays on Italian Economic History: Human Capital and Innovation, 1815-1914
Supervisor: Alessandro Nuvolari
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Tommaso Rughi

PhD Award Year: 2023
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on technological evolution and socio-economic impacts under climate change
Supervisors: Giorgio Fagiolo and Maria Enrica Virgillito

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Charlotte Bez

PhD Award Year: 2023
First placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Berlin (MCC), Germany
Dissertation: Essays on the Political Economy of the Environment A Just Transition for the Left-Behind?
Supervisors: Andrea Roventini and Maria Enrica Virgillito

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Armanda Cetrulo

PhD Award Year: 2022
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on Labour: Perspectives on Social Classes, Knowledge and Power within Organisations
Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi and Maria Enrica Virgillito
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Federico Riccio

PhD Award Year: 2022
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on Structural Change, Growth and Income Distribution: An Evolutionary Interpretation
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Simone Tonini

PhD Award Year: 2022
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on the application of sparse penalized regressions in time series: meta-analysis, theory, and empirical applications
Supervisor: Francesca Chiaromonte
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Angelo Cuzzola

PhD Award Year: 2022
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Economics of Micro-Macro Interactions
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Elisa Palagi

PhD Award Year: 2022
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: The Complexity and Multidimensionality of Economic Inequality: Four Essays
Supervisor: Andrea Roventini
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Florent Bardot

PhD Award Year: 2022
First placement: Banque de France 
Dissertation: Robotics and artificial intelligence: what impacts on employment and inequalities?
Supervisors: Andrea Mina and Patrick Llerena

Matias Iglesias

PhD Award Year: 2021
First placement: Director Analisis de Datos y Desarrollo de Aplicaciones - MSEG PBA
Dissertation: Essays in the Economics of Aggregation in Empirical Contexts
Supervisor: Federico Tamagni
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Fabiana De Cristofaro

PhD Award Year: 2021
First placement: Research Analyst - Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF)
Dissertation: Exercises in comparative economic policy: three papers
Supervisor: Federico Tamagni
 

Martina Occelli

PhD Award Year: 2021
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Cornell University
Dissertation: The Silent Revolution: local ecological knowledge on the resilience of smallholder farmers in marginal agroecosystems
Supervisors: Alessandro Nuvolari and Mario Enrico Pè
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Sebastiano Michele Zema

PhD Award Year: 2021
First placement: Research Analyst - European Central Bank
Dissertation: Three Essays on Financial Markets as Complex Dynamical Systems
Supervisor: Giorgio Fagiolo
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Gianluca Pallante

PhD Award Year: 2021
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on Macroeconomic Policy
Supervisor: Andrea Roventini
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Irene Iodice

PhD Award Year: 2020
First placement: Assistant Professor, Bielefeld University
Dissertation: Three essays on firms in international markets
Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi and Lionel Fontagné
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Matteo Coronese

PhD Award Year: 2020
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School
Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Environmental Boundaries
Supervisor: Andrea Roventini
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Elena Romito

PhD Award Year: 2020
First placement: Research Analyst - Bank of Italy
Dissertation: Three Essays on access to knowledge and IPRs
Supervisor: Arianna Martinelli
 

Fernando Sossdorf

PhD Award Year: 2020
First placement: Economist at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)  
Dissertation: Essays on industrial dynamics: the case of Chile
Supervisor: Daniele Moschella
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Jacopo Staccioli

PhD Award Year: 2019
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economic Policy - Catholic University of Milan
Dissertation: Essays on the emergence of endogenous financial fluctuations
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Pietro Santoleri

PhD Award Year: 2019
First placement: Economist at STATEC Research
Dissertation: Essays on young firms' dynamics
Supervisors: Federico Tamagni and and Angelo Secchi
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Giovanna Capponi

PhD Award Year: 2018
First placement: Postdoctoral Researcher - Utrecht University
Dissertation: Breakthrough Innovations and Appropriability Strategies: Three Essays Based on The Queen's Award for Innovations
Supervisor: Alessandro Nuvolari
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Caterina Santi

PhD Award Year: 2018
First placement: Assistant Professor - HEC Liège
Dissertation: Essays on Financial Markets
Supervisor: Giulio Bottazzi
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Matteo Sostero

PhD Award Year: 2017
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Italian Institute of Public Policy analysis (INAPP)
Dissertation: Essays on the Measurement and Assessment of Inequality, Sustainability, and Innovation
Supervisor: Federico Tamagni
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Igor Vexin

PhD Award Year: 2017
First placement: Quantitative Risk Analyst - UBS​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays on Realized Covariance Estimation
Supervisor: Giulio Bottazzi
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Lilit Popoyan

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Three Essays on Macroprudential Regulations, Banks, and Macroeconomic Performance
Supervisor: Andrea Roventini
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Flavio Calvino

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Junior Economist at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Employment dynamics and Innovation​​​​​​​
Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi and Angelo Secchi
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Mattia Guerini

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Researcher - OFCE SciencePo, Sophia-Antipolis​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays on Macroeconomic Dynamics - A Complex System Perspective
Supervisors: Andrea Roventini and Alessio Moneta
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Le Li

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IBIMET-CNR​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Asymmetric Growth Distribution and Aggregate Growth
Supervisor: Giulio Bottazzi
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Maria Enrica Virgillito

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Policy, Catholic University of Milan, Itay​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays on Economic Coordination and Change: from Industry and Labour Markets to Macroeconomic Regimes of Growth
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Virginia Cecchini Manara

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics and Management - University of Trento​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Institutions: Cognition and Motivation. Three Essays
Supervisor: Lorenzo Sacconi and Alessio Moneta
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Clara Mattei

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Assistant Professors, Department of Economics .New School for Social Research 

Dissertation: Market Fetishism and Repressive Politics in European Austerity Thinking after WWI (1918-1925)​​​​​​​
Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi, Nicola Giocoli, Claude Diebolt
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Lorenzo Napolitano

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Complex System - CNR​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Capability-driven innovation: a patent-based inquiry into the distribution in space and across fields of technological novelty
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
 

Francesco Lamperti

PhD Award Year: 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays on Climate Change and Macroeconomic Dynamics from a Complex System Perspective
Supervisors: Andrea Roventini and Giovanni Dosi
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Matteo Chinazzi

PhD Award Year: 2015
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Northeastern University​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Three Essays on Financial Networks
Supervisor: Giorgio Fagiolo
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Elena Stepanova

PhD Award Year: 2015
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays on Market for Paintings in Europe
Supervisor: Alessandro Nuvolari
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Mojgan Samandar

PhD Award Year: 2015
First placement: Assistant Professor at National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP)

Dissertation: Essays in Economics of Innovation​​​​​​​
Supervisor Alessandro Nuvolari

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Daniele Giachini

PhD Award Year: 2015
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Three Essays in Evolutionary Finance
Supervisor: Giulio Bottazzi
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Rossana Mastandrea

PhD Award Year: 2014
First placement: Postdoctoral Research at Centre de Physique Théorique, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Empirical Analysis of Complex Networks: Three Essays
Supervisor: Giorgio Fagiolo
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Hana Cosic

PhD Award Year: 2014
First placement: Assistant Professor -IUS University​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays in Behavioural Economics 
Supervisor: Alessandro Nuvolari
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Xiaodon Yu

PhD Award Year: 2014
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School​​​​​​​
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Learning, Restructuring and Catching-up: the Evidence from China’s Manufacturing 1998-2007
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Daniele Moschella

PhD Award Year: 2013
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics - Sant'Anna School​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Three Essays on Organizational Capabilities, Market Selection, and Trade Competitiveness
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Mercedes Campi

PhD Award Year: 2013
First placement: Policy Analyst at Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Breeding Seeds of Contention. Studies in the Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in the Agricultural Sector
Supervisors: Alessandro Nuvolari and Giovanni Dosi
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Emanuele Pugliese

PhD Award Year: 2013
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Complex System - CNR​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Three Essays on Technology, Firms’ Dynamics and Income Distribution
Supervisor: Giovanni Dosi
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Marco Dueñas

PhD Award Year: 2013
First placement: Researcher at CLIMAFIN, Paris, France​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Complexity in the Global Economy: Three Essays
Supervisors: Giorgio Fagiolo and Giulio Bottazzi
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Giorgia Barboni

PhD Award Year: 2012
First placement: Robert Solow Postdoctoral Fellow (University St. Gallen)​​​​​​​
Dissertation: Essays on Credit Markets in Developed and Developing Countries
Supervisor: Luigi Marengo
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Ugo Gragnolati

PhD Award Year: 2012
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), Strasbourg, France​​​​​​​
Dissertation: The spatial structure of economic activities
Supervisor: Giulio Bottazzi
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