The project includes 2 research units with complementary and synergetic competencies that will ensure a multidisciplinary approach to maximize the impact on research and society.
The University of Tuscia (UNITUS) research unit (RU) will be the coordinating unit composed of academic experts in Economic Statistics and Political Economy. University of Pisa (PISA) is composed of academic experts in Statistics.
Luca Secondi
(Principal Investigator)
Luca Secondi is Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Tuscia. Since November 2019 he has been appointed as Rector’s Delegate for national and international ranking. He obtained the PhD in Applied Statistics at the University of Florence and was visiting researcher at American University and the Infometrics Institute (Washington, DC), the Shanxi and Jiangxi Universities in China and the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
His main research interests cover the area of household and individuals’ living conditions, especially regarding consumption, poverty and inequalities at local level, sustainable food management and insecurity. Since 2022, he has been included in the Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists Ranking for the Economics and Business field. He has also been recognized as one of the top five authors on consumer food waste.
Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 PNRR HAC VIA project and the European SMP project PERFETTO, and task leader in the H2020 LOWINFOOD project, he is also a member of the European WASTEWISE project. He has contributed to the Technical Table for the Tourism Observatory of the Lazio Region. Moreover, he has served as a committee member and consultant for the European Commission, EUROSTAT, EU-JRC, ISTAT, ANVUR, Luiss Business School, and other national and international institutions.
Tiziana laureti
Tiziana Laureti is a full professor of Economic Statistics and Director of the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organizations at the University of Tuscia (Italy). She was a member of the COMSTAT which resolves upon the National Statistical Program (appointed by the Italian President of the Council of Ministers for 2015-2019), in charge of the domain of price statistics. She participates in various international research projects, including MAKSWELL project, “InnovAfrica-Innovations in Technology, Institutional and Extension Approaches towards Sustainable Agriculture and enhanced Food and Nutritional Security in Africa”. She is also involved in several international research teams related to price statistics organized by various Institutions, including the International Comparison Program of the World Bank and EU-Eurostat, C4: Price statistics, Purchasing power parities, Housing statistics. She is Elected member of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) since 2004 and of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Ilaria Benedetti
Ilaria Benedetti is a Tenure Track in Economic Statistics at University of Tuscia. She achieved her Ph.D. in Economics Statistics and Sustainability in 2018. She participates to various international research projects, including MAKSWELL project (MAKing Sustainable development and WELL-being frameworks work for policy analysis), Comunikos project (Communicating Uncertainty in Key Official Statistics) coordinated by GOPA Luxembourg S.à.r.l. Main research interests: poverty and well-being, environmental sustainability, computation of sub-national spatial price indexes.
Federico Crescenzi
Federico Crescenzi is a research fellow in economic statistics at the department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organizations at the University of Tuscia, Italy. He obtained his PhD in Statistical Sciences at the Department of Statistics at the University of bologna. He is author of several publications on theoretical and applied issues in poverty estimation. He was consultant in the planning and dissemination of statistics of the Quality of Life Survey and Household budget survey held by Statistics Mauritius in 2019.
Giulio Guarini
Giulio Guarini is Full Professor in Political Economy at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo– Italy). PHD at Sapienza University and visiting scholar at Sussex University and Oxford University. Scientific director of research projects, mainly in collaboration with ENEA. Main research interests: economic development, environmental sustainability, innovation, ecological macroeconomics, inequalities, human development. He is on the editorial boards of several Journals. He is a member of international and national research networks.
Roberta Sestini
Roberta Sestini has been Associate Professor in Applied Economics since 2018 at Sapienza University of Rome. In September 2022 she moved to the Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organizations, University of Tuscia. She holds a MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick (U.K) and a PhD in Economic Theory and Institutions from University of Rome Tor Vergata. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (U.S.A.) and at the Dept of Economics, University of Leicester (U.K.). Her current research interests range from environmental policy design focussing also on developing countries to the empirical analysis of renewable energy technologies diffusion.
Patrizio Morganti
Patrizio Morganti is an Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). He took his PhD at Sapienza University of Rome. He has been a visiting graduate student at the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting scholar at Université Côte d’Azur and NRU High School of Economics of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). His current research focuses on macroeconomics and finance, ecological and energy transition, and sustainable local development. He is also a member of national and international research associations.
Francesco Maria Morosini
Francesco Maria Morosini is a research fellow and collaborator at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), as well as a mathematics lecturer with a strong academic background in statistics and data analysis. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistical Sciences, and his research interests include applied statistics, regression models, and the analysis of complex data, with a particular focus on advanced statistical techniques for interpreting real-world phenomena in socio-economic and environmental contexts.
Niccolò Salvini
Niccolò Salvini is a research fellow in Economic Statistics at the University of Tuscia. He earned his Ph.D. in Health Data Science from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. His research focuses on web scraping, data science, and statistical modeling for policy analysis. He contributed as a researcher to the Unipg project CORE on anti-corruption in healthcare procurement and the PRIN project Digital Innovation in Price Statistics: Open and Fast Insights from Online Scraped Data, under the supervision of Prof. Tiziana Laureti. Currently, he is working on transport poverty under the supervision of Prof. Luca Secondi.
Chiara grazini
Chiara Grazini (Viterbo, 1990) is Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) in Political Economy at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). She graduated in Administration, Finance and Control in 2018 at the University of Tuscia, where she subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods in 2022.
The research interests are human development and capability approach; well-being and multidimensional evaluation of poverty; eco-innovation, environmental regulations and research network; economic growth and income distribution in post-Keynesian models, particularly concerning environmental sustainability and ecological structural change. She is a member of the Italian Society of the History of Political Economy (STOREP). She has published in national and international journals, such as Moneta e Credito, Studies of Applied Economics and Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Bulletin. She has participated in the research project on energy poverty in social housing, which was released in collaboration with the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). Currently, she participates with a research group on the National Recovery and Resilience Plan with a project on the impacts of green innovations and the severity of environmental regulations on international competitiveness. She also participates in the PRIN research project 2022 of the University of Tuscia focused on human development at the local level and collaborates with “MinervaLab” – Laboratory on gender diversity and inequalities – coordinated by Prof. Marcella Corsi at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Filippo Gregori
Filippo Gregori is a PhD student in Economics and Statistics at the University of Tuscia and a researcher at Utilitatis Foundation. Filippo’s research interests encompass circular economy, as well as sustainable strategies and space economy. He holds an MSc in Strategic Management with a major in Green Economy and Sustainability from LUISS University and was a trainee at the Copernicus Space Office of ESA.
The University of Pisa (UNIPI) Dept. of Economics and Management unit is composed by Stefano Marchetti.
Stefano Marchetti
Stefano Marchetti is Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Pisa. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from the University of Florence (2009). He is a member of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and of the Italian Statistical Society. He participated to many international and national projects, including the European projects SAMPLE (Small Area Methods for Poverty and Living conditions Estimates), E-FRAME (European Framework for Measuring Progress), InGRID (Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion), InGRID2 (Integrating Research Infrastructure for European expertise on Inclusive Growth from data to policy), MAKSWELL (MAKing Sustainable development and WELL-being frameworks work for policy).