Teaching and Supervision

My teaching spans undergraduate courses in statistics, econometrics, data science, economic development, and macroeconomic theory, as well as graduate-level lectures on macroeconometric methods, with a particular emphasis on Bayesian computation.

I supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses and contribute to the training of PhD students through doctoral summer schools. Recent projects have included using text mining to study inflation expectations on Reddit, nowcasting GDP growth with Google Trends, and modelling European migration flows using social-media network data.

Guest Lectures and Student Workshops

• Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Modeling Climate-Related Human Mobility. Wittgenstein Centre pre-conference workshop for MSc and PhD students, Austrian Academy of Sciences, November 2025.
• Borders, Blindspots and Big Data: Statistical Perspectives on Human Migration. Workshop for the Forum Junge Statistik of the Austrian Statistical Society, University of Vienna, October 2025.
• Analyzing and Visualizing Spatial Data in R: Demography, Climate, and Political Protest in Italy. Guest lecture for BSc students, University of Bologna, November 2023.
• Exploring Statistical Methods and Data Sources for the Study of Population and Climate Change. Guest lecture for MSc and PhD students, University of Bologna, March 2023.