I have a Bachelor in Statistics and Economics (University of Bologna, Italy), a Master's of Arts in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (George Mason University, USA), and a Ph.D. in Economics (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands). I have worked in Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the USA, concentrating, over the years, on topics such as complex networks, regional employment forecasting, regional unemployment differentials, commuting networks and regional innovation processes. Methodologically, I'm currently interested in spatial statistics and econometrics, in particular with applications to nonlinear and mixed methods. I was the local unit coordinator for a FIRB 2012 project on "Social and Spatial Interactions in the Accumulation of Civic and Human Capital", and I am one of the Editors of REGION, the journal of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA).