After my studies at the University of Bologna (MA), I obtained my PhD in Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (‘Extraordinary Thesis’ award 2019). I currently work as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva. I have also been a Senior SNF Researcher at the University of Lausanne (2018-2021) and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Buenos Aires (2016). I am a member of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES.

My research adressed with an interdisciplinary approach issues related to labor markets, leisure, mental health, life courses and social inequalities, especially among young people. My main theoretical and methodological expertise is social capital theory and social network analysis. For my PhD, I studied the weight of these relational aspects on the inequalities of young people’s career trajectories, in the context of the transition to adulthood. More recently, I have been interested in the influence of the digital world on the mobilization of social capital. In particular, I have studied the influence of time spent with others in leisure on social support and psychological health, comparing face-to-face and online interactions. Theoretically, I have been working on the integration of social network analysis and life course research through peer review articles and co-editing the special issue ‘Networked Lives’ with Rick J. Settersten, Betina Hollstein and Dario Spini. Methodologically, I have analyzed longitudinal, network and narrative data, although mainly I work on and teach quantitative methods. Currently, I am leading the project The Empty Office, an international study of the effects of teleworking on social relations.

My work has been published in Advances in Life Course Research, Computers in Human Behaviour, Social Indicators Research, PLoS ONE, Sociological Research Online, Leisure Studies, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour and other international peer-reviewed journals.