About
I am a PhD candidate from UCLouvain (IRES/LIDAM) and KU Leuven (Research Unit of Early Modern History).
Currently, I am developing an interdisciplinary project bridging economics, history and digital humanities funded by a Global Fellowship between KU Leuven and UCLouvain, titled "Bridging Data Science and Intellectual History: Computing the Nodes and Edges in the Old University of Louvain (1425-1797)". The project aims at providing a data-driven answer to the question of how academic networks were configured around the Old University of Louvain, a crucial hub for the transfer of knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe.
You can find my full CV here.
Research
My research interest include: economic history, digital humanities, economics of crime, and economics of religion.
Works in Progress
- Salvation, Flora, and the Cosmos: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas (with David de la Croix and Chiara Zanardello)
- Integrating library and prosopographical data in the publication network of the Old University of Louvain (with Margherita Fantoli)
- Empirical evidence on the impact of the Catholic Church on political participation in Italy
Publications
- Geolocalization and the birth-to-death distance, Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae - RETE, 14, 37–42, 2025 (with David de la Croix)
- Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices, Journal of Regional Science, 63, 1001–1025, 2023 (with Francesca Calamunci, Livio Ferrante and Gianpiero Torrisi)
- Closed for Mafia: Evidence from the removal of mafia firms on commercial property values, Journal of Regional Science, 62, 1487–1511, 2022 (with Francesca Calamunci and Livio Ferrante)
