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 (Viterbo – Italy). Since November 2019 he has been appointed as Rector’s Delegate for national and international rankings. He obtained the PhD in Applied MUR – BANDO 2022 PNRR Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Statistics at the University of Florence and was visiting researcher at the American University (Washington-DC) and the Info-metrics Institute (Washington DC), the Shanxi university (China) and the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) within the Erasmus+ teaching program. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has covered roles as research consultant, expert, trainer and member of institutional working group in various institutions including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Italian National Statistical Institute (ISTAT) and Eurostat. 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. Starting from November 2020 he is task leader and supports the coordination of the HORIZON-2020 LOWINFOOD project.
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 research fellow 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 a research fellow at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). He took his PhD at Sapienza University. 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 at NRU High School of Economics of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). His area of expertise is macroeconomics and finance, and his current research focuses on the investigation of the relationship between financial development, deployment of renewables, and economic growth.
Francesco Maria Morosini
Francesco Maria Morosini is a research fellow and collaborator at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), as well as a mathematics professor with a specialized background in statistics and data analysis.
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).