Agnese Vitali

• 2012 -- Ph.D. in Statistics, Bocconi University. Supervisor: Prof. F.C. Billari. Thesis: Multilevel and Spatial Approaches for the Study of Demographic Behaviours
• 2008 -- European Doctoral School of Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock) and Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (Paris)
• 2007 -- MSc degree in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University. Supervisor: Prof. F.C. Billari
• 2004 -- BSc degree in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University

SUMMER SCHOOLS AND OTHER TRAINING

• 2016 -- Springboard: Women's Development Programme, University of Southampton
• 2011 -- Summer Seminar on Population “Designing Fertility Analyses in the Context of Low Fertility”, East-West Center (Honolulu, HI USA)
• 2010 -- Summer School “Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute”, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

ACADEMIC POSTS

Since 1.09.2024 – Full Professor of Demography

Since 2019 – Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
2018-2019  – Associate Professor of Social Statistics and Demography, Department of Social Statistics and Demography,  University of Southampton
2013–2018 – Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor) in Social Statistics and Demography, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton
2011–2013 – Research Fellow at “Carlo F. Dondena” Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University
2009–2011 – Research Associate at “Carlo F. Dondena” Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University

OTHER POSTS AND SERVICES

• since 2023 – Coordinator, PhD in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento 
• since 2019 – Board Member, PhD in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento 
• since 2021 – Member appointed by the Rector of the University of Trento, Territorial Table of the Val D'Adige Territory [Tavolo Territoriale del Territorio Val D’Adige]
• since 2021 – Member appointed by the Rector, Joint Committee for the right to study and the enhancement of merit [Comitato Paritetico di Ateneo per il diritto allo studio e la valorizzazione del merito], University of Trento
• since 2021 – Member, Management Commitee of “Hans Schadee” Center for Social Research Methods, University of Trento
• 2021          – Expert [Esperta Stabile], General States of Labor [Stati Generali del Lavoro] in Trentino 
• 2021-2023 – Member, Joint Teacher-Student Commission [Commissione Paritetica Docenti-Studenti], Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento 
• 2016-2018 – Director, BSc Population and Geography, University of Southampton
• 2017-2018 – Director, BSc Quantitative Social Science, University of Southampton
• 2015-2018 – Board Member, European Doctoral School of Demography, University of Southampton
• 2018          – Board Member, Advisory Board of the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton
• 2016-2018 – Student employability coordinator, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton
• 2016-2018 – Member, Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team for equality and diversity, Social Sciences Academic Unit, University of Southampton

RESEARCH VISITS

2017 (August)       --  Family and Population Studies, University of Leuven, Leuven
2016 (December)  --  Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2016 (July)            --   Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
2012 (September) --  Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford

Agnese is a social demographer. She is interested in researching topics related to family and fertility, gender, transition to adulthood. Agnese takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to research.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

• PI: Wellbeing and Fertility Policies (WelFerPoli), PRIN 2022 PNRR, Italian Ministry of University and Research (€265,451), 2023-2025 
• CO-PI, with Romeo, G.: Fondazione Cariplo, bando Ricerca Sociale–2021. “ALFA – Aligning Law with Family Arrangements: Non-traditional Families’ Contribution to Fertility and Parenting in Italy” (€187,572), 2022-2024 
• PI: Parenting Academia, Università di Trento (€62,000), 2021-2023
• PI: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UK Future Research Leaders grant “Female-breadwinner Families in Europe”. Grant N. ES/N00082X/1 (£152,154), 2016–2019
• CO-PI, with Arpino, B.: H2020 ESS-ERIC Academic Publishing Worksop “Going beyond the country: Exploring sub-national effects on socio-demographic phenomena with European Social Survey data”, 2017–2018
• CO-PI, with Zhang L.-C., Holland J.A. and Carr, L.: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) Defence and Security 1+3 PhD Call on Statistical Sampling of the Web, UK Ministry of Defence “A sequential sampling and estimation framework for social media data”, 2015–2019
• CO-PI, with Holland J.A.: University of Southampton Strategic Interdisciplinary Research and Development Fund, School of Social Sciences “Using Twitter Data for Population Estimates”, 2015–2016
• CO-PI, with Smith, P. and Holland J.A.: Consultancy for Office for National Statistics (ONS) pilot project “Analysis of Twitter Data”, 2014–2015
• PI: University of Southampton Strategic Research and Development Fund, School of Social Sciences “The emergence of women as main earners in Europe”, 2014

Member, Scientific Council of the Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP) (since 2023)

Secretary, Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP) (2021-2023) 

Member, Scientific Council of Fondazione Guerreri (since 2023)

Member, Scientific Technical Committee, Fondazione Luigi Negrelli (since 2023)

Member, Scientific Committee, Valeria Solesin Award, Forum della Meritocrazia [Meritocracy Forum] (since 2021)

Member, Scientific Committee for the Observatory for monitoring the labour market, Agenzia del Lavoro Trento, Autonomous Province of Trento (since 2022)