Curriculum Vitae

Positions

• 2025–Assistant Professor (Tenure-track)
  Dept. of Sociology and Social Research — University of Trento
• 2025–Fellow
  Mobile and Social Computing Lab — Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• 2023–25Research Scientist
  Mobile and Social Computing Lab — Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• 2020–23Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Dept. of Sociology and Social Research — University of Trento
• 2016–19Researcher
  Transcrime — Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Bologna, Perugia
• 2018Visiting Research Scholar
  School of Computer Science — Carnegie Mellon University

Education

• 2020Ph.D. in Criminology
  Catholic University, Milan — Advisor: Prof. Kathleen M. Carley (CMU). Dissertation: On Meta-Networks, Deep Learning, Time and Jihadism.
• 2016M.Sc. in Public Policy (magna cum laude)
  Catholic University, Milan — Advisor: Prof. Francesco Calderoni.
• 2014B.A. in Political Science
  Catholic University, Milan — Advisor: Prof. Silvio Cotellessa.

Awards

• 2024Early Career Award
  European Society of Criminology
• 2021Finalist (Runner-up), Terrorism Research Initiative Ph.D. Thesis Award
  Best doctoral dissertation in terrorism and counter-terrorism studies, 2019–2020

Editorial & Service

• 2025–Associate Editor
  Journal of Computational Social Science
• 2025–Editorial Board Member
  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
• Program / Scientific Committees
  CS2Italy (2025, 2026); IC2S2 (2025); Complex Networks & Their Applications (2022, 2023); SBP-BRiMS (2019–2021).
• Reviewer
  Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Social Forces, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Terrorism and Political Violence, International Journal of Drug Policy, European Sociological Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Computers in Human Behavior, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Nature Health, and many others.

National Qualification

• 2024Italian National Qualification — Associate Professor
  Sociology of Political and Legal Phenomena (14/C3)
• 2022Italian National Qualification — Associate Professor
  General Sociology (14/C1)

Selected Invited Talks

Teaching

• Computational Social Science
  M.Sc. in Data Science, University of Trento
• Computational Methods in Social Research
  Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
• Applied Social Research
  B.A. in Sociology, University of Trento
• Machine Learning for the Social Sciences · Introduction to Python · Introduction to Stata
  Ph.D. Programme, University of Trento
• 2025Invited Guest Lecturer
  Summer School of the European Society of Criminology, University of Lausanne

Mentoring

• Ariadna Albors Zumel
  Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Trento (2022–26) — Forecasting Crime at Micro-places with Deep Learning
• Barbara Pacetta
  Ph.D. student in Computer Science, DISI, University of Trento.
• M.Sc. thesis co-advising & research internships
  Data Science & AI Systems, University of Trento — incl. Barbara Pacetta, Massimo Stefan, Josefine Meyer.
• Thesis Committee (External)
  Daniele Bellutta — Societal Computing Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (2025–26)

Grants

• 2020–22Department of Excellence Fellowship
  University of Trento — Italian Ministry of University and Research
• 2016–19Ph.D. Full Scholarship
  Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research

Skills

Languages