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Post-doc experience

In 2009-2010 I was Robert Solow post-doc fellow at Columbia University under the guidance of Professor Michael Woodford. In 2010-2011 I was Max Weber fellow at European University Institute where my work was supervised by Professor Ramon Marimon.

Education

After being a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 2007-2008, and at the University of St. Andrews for the Fall Term 2008, I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Siena in September 2009.

My dissertation, ‘Behavioural Uncertainty, Expectations and Learning in Macroeconomics’, was examined by Professors Nicola Dimitri (University of Siena), George W. Evans (University of Oregon) and Roger Guesnerie (College de France).

Awards and Fellowships

In 2010 I was awarded the Max Weber post-doc fellowship by the European University Institute. 

In 2009 I received the Best Ph.D. Paper Award from the Society of Computational Economics.

In 2009, I was awarded the Robert Solow post-doc fellowship by the Cournot Centre

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