About me

I’m a PhD Student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. My research interests include policing, incarceration, identity, intersectionality, quantitative methods and causal inference.

My doctoral thesis deals with two fundamental research questions: 1) whether and how racially biased policing changes as an effect of either reforms or social movements; 2) if the intersection of racial status with queerness worsens police discrimination. See my Research page for more details.

I have also taught BA courses during my doctorate, both as a TA (~140 hours between courses like Introduction to Sociology, Criminality, and Research Methods Applied to Global Studies) and as a Lecturer (26 hours in Introduction to Sociology). I have taught in both English and Catalan.

Before this, I obtained a B.A. and an M.A. in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Bologna, Italy. I also worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, in the Departments of Economics (2020-2021) and Languages (2022), and in an OECD project on Higher Education in Greece (2020-2021).