Short Bio and CV

Fields of interest:

Economics of Climate Change, Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Agricultural Economics.


Complete Curriculum vitae:

Curriculum Vitae available here.


Short Bio:


I have been Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy of the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2014. I am CESifo Research Network Fellow, Research Affiliate at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, Brook Byers Sustainable Development Fellow.

My research focuses on the economics and policy of climate change mitigation, adaptation and impacts. I published 30 peer reviewed articles, 10 book chapters and edited 1 book. I presented my research in more than 80 conferences, seminars and workshops.  I am one of the authors of WITCH, a widely used Integrated Assessment Model to study optimal climate mitigation policies. 

I was Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change and consulted for the OECD, the UNDP, the UNEP and the EBRD.

I earned a PhD in Economics from Catholic University of Milan in 2009. From 2011-2013 I was Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. Before joining Georgia Tech, I was Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Unit of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).