Hello!

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano) under the supervision of Fabrizio Mazzonna.

Research fields: health economics • labour economics • ageing

I completed the Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics and hold an MSc in Political Economy from LSE and an MSc in Economics from the University of Verona. Before my PhD, I worked as a Research Analyst at The European House - Ambrosetti.

You can find my CV here.

Research (selected work in progress )

• Beyond Chronological Age: Blood-Based Biological Age as a Predictor of Healthcare Utilisation (with L. De Menech and C. Nicodemo)
R&R in Journal of Health Economics [Presented at: EuHEA 2024, Alp-Pop 2025, University of Verona, USI Lugano, University of Oxford, ESSGN conference 2026]

• Job Conditions and Biological Ageing: Does anyone benefit from retirement?
[Presented at: AIES XXX National Conference]

• Low Pay, High Price: Biological Impacts of Minimum Wage

Employed datasets:
• Biological age work: Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
• Current work in progress: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) and Nivel Primary Care Database

Teaching and research assistantships

• Causal Inference for Policy Evaluation, USI Lugano MSc - Spring 2026 - T.A. for Prof. F. Mazzonna
• Public Economics, USI Lugano BSc - Fall 2025 - T.A. for Prof. F. Mazzonna and Prof. V. Rotondi
• Microeconomics, USI Lugano MSc - Fall 2025, Fall 2024 - T.A. for Prof. F. Mazzonna
• Economics for Communication, USI Lugano BSc - Fall 2024 - T.A. for Prof. F. Mazzonna and Prof. B. Antonioli Mantegazzini
• Institutional Foundations of Industrialization, Financialization, and Globalization of the Swiss Economy. Evidence from 140 Years of the Commercial Registry, 2023-2024 - R.A. for Prof. R. Parchet

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