I'm a PhD candidate at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) in Economics, Networks and Business Analitycs (ENBA). I work for the research unit NETWORKS, directed by Prof. Diego Garlaschelli, who also leads the Econophysics Group at Leiden University (The Netherlands).
Since November 2022, I am also a PhD student at Leiden University in cotutelle with IMT. In Leiden, I work under the supervision of Prof. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical learning at the mathematical institute of Leiden University and senior researcher of the Machine Learning group at CWI, Amsterdam.
My background, which I acquired at Sapienza University of Rome, is in Statistical Physics. My main research interests lie in the development and application of statistical physics approaches to the study of complex networks. I'm interested in the problem of selecting network models by applying information theoretical criteria based on the Minimum Description Length principle (MDL). In the last year, I also approached the problem of advanced hypothesis testing by developing e-values that are suitable for network models. These projects involve methods from Statistical Physics, Information Theory, and Statistics.