Nationality: Italian Place of birth: Alessandria - Italy Date of birth: 11 November 1976 Marital status: married
May 2006: Visiting at the University of East Anglia (Norwich – GB)
2001 – 2005: Doctoral Program in European Economic Studies at the University of Turin
Thesis title: ‘Fairness, Punishment and Help: Experimental and Theoretical Contributions’
September 2004: Summer School in Trento on 'Game theory, ethics and social norms'
September 2003: Master of Science in Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
June 2002: Masters in Economics (CORIPE Piemonte - Consortium for Research and Continuing Education in Economics), University of Turin. All courses and exams at CORIPE are held in English.
December 2000: degree in Political Science from the University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria Final Average: 110/110 cum laude Thesis title: 'L'altruismo: approccio biologico e approccio economico' (Altruism: from a biological and an economic approach) Thesis Advisor: Prof. Guido Ortona Subject: Game Theory
1995: High school leaving certificate in language studies at the Istituto Magistrale 'D. R. Saluzzo', Alessandria
Academic activities
From May 2007: Scholarship in Economics, Econometica, University of Milano Bicocca
From December 2004 to April 2007: Scholarship in Economics, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice, Faculty of Political Science, University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
From May 2005: Collaboration with the Laboratory of Experimental Economics in Milano Bicocca
From September 2003: Collaboration with the Laboratory of Simulative and Experimental Economics, run by Professor Guido Ortona, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice, Faculty of Political Science, University of Eastern Piedmont (Alessandria - Italy).
February - June 2001: Assistant for a project called "Institutional Economic Analysis in Imperfect Contracts Theory", Department of Public Policy and Public Choice, Faculty of Political Science, University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
Teaching experience
May 2007: Economics course at the Master 'Spettacolo Impresa Società', University of Milano Bicocca
From October 2006: Econometrics and Statisics for Economics Tutor at the Department of Public Policy and Public Choice, Faculty of Political Science, University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
September 2005: Economics course at the'Scuola Estiva del Farmaco', Siena
April– June 2005: Economics and Microeconomics Tutor at Labores
From October 2004: Economics and Microeconomics Tutor at the Department of Public Policy and Public Choice, Faculty of Political Science, University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
September 2000 - August 2001: English and Microeconomics Analysis Tutor for the IFTS Course "Management in Public Administration", Piedmont
1997 - 2000: English Language Tutor at the University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
Honors, fellowships
2001: Prize for theses about 'Ethics, Economics and Politics', Fondazione Lanza, Padova, Italy
Other professional activities
April - October 2000: Personal Assistant to Prof. Aldo Viarengo, DiSTA (Department of Science and Advanced Technology), University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
October 1998: English language interpreter at Alessandria's City Hall
1997 - 2000: Part-time activity in the Library and Dean's Office at University of Eastern Piedmont 'A. Avogadro', Alessandria
Other information
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian: mother tongue
English: good verbal, reading and writing skills July 2001: TOEFL test computer based score: 247 June 2001: First Certificate in English University of Cambridge. Local Examinations Syndacate. Mark: A
French: good verbal, reading and writing skills
German: basic verbal, reading and writing skills
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Computer Operating Systems: Ms Dos, Windows/NT
General Computer Applications: Word, Excel, Power Point, Netscape, Explorer, Eudora, Adobe Photo Delux
Statistical and Econometric software packages: STATA, SPSS, Maple
Software for Experiments and Simulations: Z-tree and AL.EX4