Education

Bachelor degree, Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, Italy. Final grade: 106 out of 110 (2005)

Master degree, Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, Italy. Final grade: 110 out of 110 (hons.) (2007)

Doctor of Science, Department of Information Technologies - Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Final grade: Eximia cum laude approbatur (2011)

Academic career and teaching activities

Present

Associate Professor of "Mathematical Methods of Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences" - Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento (Feb 2020 - today)

Adjunct Professor (docent) at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland (Feb 2016 - Jan 2026).

Italian national scientific habilitation for the role of Full Professor in the sector 13/D4 "Mathematical Methods of Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences" (Aug 2019 - August 2028)

 

Past

Visiting student - Department of System Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, USA (April - May 2007);

Visiting scholar - Public Choice Research Centre, University of Turku, Finland. (September 2007 - June 2008)

Visiting scholar - CITRIS, University of California, Berkeley, USA (June 2009 - May 2010)

Visiting scholar - KEDRI, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (February - May 2011)

Postdoctoral researcher - IAMSR, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, (September 2011 - April 2012)

Visiting researcher - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (September 2015 - December 2015)

Postdoctoral researcher - SAL, Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Finland (May 2012 - August 2014)

Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher -  Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Finland (Sept 2014 - Jan 2017)

Assistant Professor of "Mathematical Methods of Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences" - Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento (Feb 2017 - Jan 2020)

Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of General Systems

Awards and honours

Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher. Project title: "Consistency of valued preference relations for decision analytics methods" (Sept. 2014 - Jan 2017 today) (Total external funding from the Academy = € 254,670)

Winner of the grant Claudio Dematté - Fondazione Trentino Università, Edition 2008 (€ 19,000)

Two times winner of the Teacher of the Year Award (Spring 2013 and Autumn 2013), Systems Analysis Laboratory, Aalto University

Winner of the Bernard Roy Award 2021: “a recognition conferred to a researcher under 40 years old for an outstanding contribution to the methodology and/or applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding