CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
Index
- Present appointments
- Research interests
- Management
- Education and training
- Previous appointments
- Review activity
- Teaching activity
- Board of PhD programs
- Supervision of post-docs, PhD and master students
- Scientific societies (past roles and membership)
- Past projects coordination
- Invited presentations and seminars (selection)
- Projects participation (selection)
- Conferences organization (selection)
Present appointments
| 2017 – current | Full Professor of Demography, University of Florence |
| 2017 – current | Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant “Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe – EU-FER” (~1.7 milion Euros) |
| 2019 – current | Principal Investigator of the Miur-Prin Grant “The Great Demographic Recession – GDR” (~580,000 Euros) |
| 2019 – current | Co-Director of Florence Population Studies (FloPS) |
| 2018 – current | Editor-in-Chief of GENUS, Journal of Population Sciences |
| 2016 – current | Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) |
Research interests
- Family-related behaviors (fertility; union formation and dissolution) and their relations with the socio-economic status of individuals
- Comparative family demography
- Family life courses: Theoretical and methodological issues
- Family events and subjective well-being
Management
| 2017 – current | Director, Master Programme in Development of Sustainable Tourism Systems, University of Florence |
| 2018 – current | Member, University of Florence Observatory on Research |
| 2017 – current | Member, University of Florence ERC Task Force |
| 2015 – 2016 | Vice-Director, Master Programme in Statistics, Actuarial and Financial Sciences, University of Florence |
| 2014 – 2016 | Steering Committee, Master Programme in Development of Sustainable Tourism Systems, University of Florence |
| 2014 – 2016 | Responsible for International Relations, Master Programme in Development of Sustainable Tourism Systems, University of Florence |
| 2013 – 2016 | Steering Committee, Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications “G. Parenti”, University of Florence |
| 2010 – 2016 | Steering Committee, Master Programmes in Statistics, Actuarial and Financial Sciences (2012-2016) and in Statistical Sciences (2010-11), University of Florence |
| 2010 – 2014 | Steering Committee, Bachelor in Statistics, University of Florence |
Education and training
| 2005 – 2008 | PhD in Demography, Department of Demographic Sciences, La Sapienza – University of Rome, Italy |
| 2005 – 2006 | European Research Master of Demography, Degree of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2005/2006, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany |
1998 – 2004 | Master Degree in Statistics and Economics, University of Florence, Italy |
previous appointments
| 2015 – 2017 | Associate Professor of Demography, University of Florence |
| 2009 – 2015 | Assistant Professor of Demography (Permanent Position), University of Florence |
| 2008 – 2009 | Post-Doc Fellow (4 months), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany |
| 2007 – 2009 | Research Fellow (15 months), Department of Statistics “G. Parenti”, University of Florence |
| 2006 – 2007 | Winter Fellow (6 months), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany |
| 2004 | Research Fellow (4 months), Department of Statistics “G. Parenti”, University of Florence |
review activity
| Projects evaluator | European Commission – NORFACE network; French National Research Agency; Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR); the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO); Croatia Science Foundation (Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost, HRZZ); National Science Centre Poland (Naradowe Centrum Nauki) |
| Referee for journals | Advances in Quality of Life Research; Advances in Life Course Research; Annals of Applied Statistics; Comparative Population Studies; Demography; Demographic Research; European Journal of Population; European Sociological Review; Feminist Economics; Genus – Journal of Population Science; International Migration Review; Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization; Journal of Family Issues; Journal of Marriage and Family; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A; Journal of Population Research; Population; Population, Space and Place; Statistical Bullettin; Population Research and Policy Review; Population Studies; Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica; Regional Studies; Social Indicators Research; Studies in Family Planning, Time and Society; Vienna Yearbook of Population Research |
Teaching activity
Courses for PhD students
| 2016 – current | Family Demography (8 hours), PhD Program in Social and Political Change [Mutamento Sociale e Politico], Joint PhD program of University of Florence and Turin |
| 2016 – current | Consequences of Demographic Change – Families (8 hours), European Doctoral School of Demography |
| 2015 – current | Demographics and Family Changes (6 hours), PhD program in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy |
| 2014 – current | Micro-Macro Approaches in Family Demography (12 hours), PhD program in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics & PhD program in Applied Statistics, University of Florence |
Courses in MBA programmes
| 2018 – current | Social Demography (42 hours), Master program in Sociologia e ricerca sociale, University of Florence |
| 2008 – current | Demographic Models / Event-History Analysis (72 hours; in English), Master program in Statistica, Scienze Attuariali e Finanziarie, University of Florence |
| 2013 – current | Business Demography (48 hours; in English), Master program in Design of Sustainable Tourism systems, University of Florence |
Board of phd programs
| 2018 – current | Board of PhD Program in “Social and Political Change” [“Mutamento Sociale e Politico”], University of Florence |
| 2013 – 2017 | Board of PhD Program in “Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics”, University of Florence |
| 2012 – 2016 | Board of PhD Program in “Applied Statistics”, University of Florence |
Supervision of post-docs, PhD and master students
| Post-docs | Dr. Massimo Nocentini (2019-current); Dr. Giacomo Bazzani (2018-current); Dr. Niccolò Innocenti (2017-current); Dr. Alessandra Minello (2018); Dr. Valentina Tocchioni (2016-2018); Dr. Elena Ruviglioni (2015) |
| PhD Students | Maria Francesca Morabito (PhD program in “Mathematics, Informatics, Statistics”, University of Florence); Elena Bastianelli (PhD program in “Sociology and Methodology of Social Rsearch”, University of Turin); Giammarco Alderotti (PhD program in “Demography”, Sapienza, University of Rome); Giulia Torelli (PhD program in “Mathematics, Informatics, Statistics”, University of Florence); Michele Mozzachiodi (PhD program in “Mathematics, Informatics, Statistics”, University of Florence); Cristina Ocello (PhD in “Applied tatistics”, University of Florence); Ilaria Vannini (PhD in “Applied Statistics”, University of Florence) |
| Master students | Supervisor of more than 30 master theses, Master Programme in Statistica, Scienze Attuariali e Finanziarie (2009 – current) & Master program in Scienze Statistiche (2009 – 2014), University of Florence; Supervision of more than 30 master theses, Master Programme in Development of Sustainable Tourism Systems 2009 – current, University of Florence |
Scientific societies (past roles and membership)
| 2013 – 2015 | Elected member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV). Role: Secretary. |
| 2009 – 2011 | Elected member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP). Role: Secretary |
| Memberships | AISP (Italian Association for Population Studies); EAPS (European Association for Population Studies); IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population); PAA (Population Association of America); SIS (Statistical Italian Society) |
Past projects coordination
| 2016 – 2017 | Principal Investigator of the Italian grant “Famiglie e Benessere: Dinamiche e Relazioni” (30,000 Euros). Funding: University of Florence Strategic Project 2016 |
| 2012 – 2015 | Coordinator of Italian research unit. Project “Childbearing within Cohabitation” (10,000 Euros). Funding: European Research Council Starting Grant CHILDCOHAB. Principal Investigator: Prof. Brienna Perelli-Harris |
| 2013 | Fieldwork Director of European Social Survey, round 6, Italy (100,000 Euros). Survey agency: VALMONs.r.l. Funding: 2012 MiUR-PRIN grant. Coordinator: Prof. Leonardo Morlino |
Invited presentations and seminars (selection)
| 2019 | Fertility under Conditions of Uncertainty in Europe. CED – Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona, Spain, November 28 2019 |
| 2019 | Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe. Keynote speech at the Gender and Generation User Conference, Paris, France, October 24 2019 |
| 2019 | Fertility under Fundamental Uncertainty. Centre for Population Change, Southampton, UK, May 16 2019 |
| 2019 | Fertility under Fundamental Uncertainty. Invited presentation at the 2019 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in the session “Understanding the Determinants of Low Fertility”, April 12 2019 |
| 2018 | Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Macro and Micro Evidence. University of Turin, May 31 2018. |
| 2017 | First Birth Losses and Gains under Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Italy. Conference “Low Fertility, Labor Market, and Family: Factors, Outcomes, and Policy Implications”, Organized by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai, October 17-20 2017 |
| 2017 | Economic Uncertainty and Fertility. University of Catania, October 11 2017 |
| 2017 | The transition to parenthood among Britain’s “Generation Rent”: examining the changing role of housing tenure. Conference “Partner Relationships, Residential Relocations and Housing in the Life Course”, Cologne, Germany, July 27-29 2017 |
| 2015 | Uncertain lives. Insights into the role of job precariousness on family formation practices in Italy. Centre for Population Change, Edinburgh, Scotland, January 29 2015 |
| 2012 | The Educational Gradient in Marital Disruption: A Meta-Analysis of European Longitudinal Research. SUDA Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, January 19 2012 |
| 2012 | Micro-Macro Approaches in Family Demography. Conference “Applied Demography – New Methods and Research Needs”, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, November 27-28 2012 |
| 2011 | Changing Patterns of Dissolution in Europe: A Meta-Analysis of Thirty Years of Research. Dondena Seminars, Bocconi University, Milan, June 6 2011 |
| 2011 | Families “all’italiana”: 150 years of history. Conference “XLVIII Scientific Meeting of the Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics”, Rome, May 26-28 2011 (with Alessandra De Rose) |
| 2010 | Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. SUDA Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, January 21 2010 |
| 2010 | The Breaking-Down of the Marriage in Italy. Conference “Spain and Italy: as Similar as Thought?”, Madrid, Spain, September 23–24 2010 (with Giuseppe Gabrielli) |
| 2009 | Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, November 2 2009 |
| 2009 | Methods for Reconciling the Micro and the Macro in Family Demography Research: A Systematization. Conference “Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets”, Italian Statistical Society, Pescara, September 23-25 2009 |
| 2009 | Living as a Woman in Old Age in Europe. Extraordinary Meeting of Women’s Committee, European Economic and Social Committee, Bruxelles, Belgium, September 15 2009 |
| 2009 | Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. Conference “Transnationalization, Globalization and its Effects on Women’s Employment and Family Transitions”, Tallinn, Estonia, September 4-5 2009 (with Anna Matysiak) |
Projects participation (selection)
| 2017 – current | CREW – Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes. Funding: Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives 2017-2020. Coordinator: Prof. Bruno Arpino |
| 2013 – 2016 | FamiliesAndSocieties. Funding: FP7-SSH-2012 Programme, European Commission. Coordinator: Prof. Livia Sz. Oláh. |
| 2011 – 2015 | Family dynamics, fertility choices and family policy. Funding: Research Council of Norway. Coordinator: Dr. Trude Lappegård |
| 2011 – 2014 | FamChIP – Family Change in Italy and Poland. Funding: Polish Ministry of Research. Coordinator: Prof. Irena E. Kotowska |
| 2009 | Monitoring Quality of Life in Europe. Family Life and Work. Funding: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Coordinator: Prof. Irena E. Kotowska |
| 2008 – 2010 | Life Course Dynamics between context and strong ties. Funding: 2007 MiURPRIN grant. Coordinator: Prof. Francesco Billari |
| 2008 – 2010 | The cost of children. Estimates, connections with the low Italian fertility, policy implications, and determination of a fair child support payment when parents divorce. Funding: 2007 MiUR-PRIN grant. Coordinator: Prof. Gustavo De Santis |
| 2008 | An exploration among Italian data sources concerning geo-referenced data. Working group of the “Commissione per la Garanzia dell’Informazione Statistica”, Executive Commission of the Italian Government. Coordinator: Prof. Alessandra Petrucci |
| 2008 | An exploration among Italian data sources concerning families: A proposal of a new Italian household panel survey. Working group of the “Commissione per la Garanzia dell’Informazione Statistica”, Executive Commission of the Italian Government. Coordinator: Prof. Carlo A. Corsini |
| 2007 – 2008 | MAGGIE – Major Ageing and Gender Issues in Europe. Funding: FP6-2004- CITIZENS-5, European Commission. Coordinator: Dr. Joëlle Gaymu |
| 2005 – 2006 | Family instability: causal aspects and demographic, economic, and social consequences. Funding: 2005 MiUR-PRIN grant. Coordinator: Prof. Massimo Livi Bacci |
| 2004 – 2005 | Mediterranean Social Cohesion, Identity and Urban Population: Sustainable Development, Policy, Foundations. Funding: Italian FISR-CNR. Coordinator: Prof. Giuseppe Gesano |
Conferences organization (selection)
| 2018 | Convener (Topic: Fertility) for the “2018 European Population Conference”, Brussels, June 6-9 2018 |
| 2017 | Scientific Committee and Organising Committee of the “2017 Italian Population Days”, Florence, February 8-10 2017 |
| 2016 | Scientific Committee of the “2016 Italian Statistical Society Meeting”, Salerno, June 8-10 2016 |
| 2013 | Scientific Committee of the conference “Comparing Families: Does the International Perspective Help?”, Warsaw, December 16-17 2013 |
| 2013 | Scientific Committee and Organising Commitee of the “I Edition of the Italian Quality-of Life Studies Conference”, Florence, July 29-31 2013 |
| 2011 | Conference Chair (together with Stefano Mazzuco) of the symposium “YOUPOP – Meeting of Italian young population researchers”, Florence, September 22-23 2011 |
| 2011 | Scientific Committee of the “2011 Italian Population Days”, Ancona, February 2-4 2011 |