Francesco is an Associate Professor in economics at IMT Lucca, working for the research unit AXES (Analysis of Complex Economic Systems). He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Alicante (FAE).
Before joining IMT, Francesco was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante (FAE) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Turin and at the University of Florence. He holds a PhD in economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa (LEM).
His main research interests are labor economics, health economics, international trade, production networks, microeconometrics, policy evaluation methods and causal machine learning.