BIO / I am a Full Professor at the Social and Political Science Department and Research Fellow at the DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). I am the Director of the Covid Crisis Lab and of the Master Program in Data Science and Business Analytics. I hold a Degree in Economics from Bocconi University and a PhD in Biological Sciences from Warwick University. I have worked several years in the Statistics, Modeling and Economics Department at the Public Health England (London, UK) where I was involved in informing policy decision makers on the introduction of vaccination programs that were under consideration at the UK Department of Health. As part of my research activities I collaborated internationally on a number of European Union, ECDC, Gates, Global Fund and WHO-funded projects on modeling infectious diseases and evaluating intervention policies both in developed and developing countries. My main areas of research include quantitative epidemiology, mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, epidemiology and economic evaluation analysis of public health interventions. I am currently the Principal Investigator of a European Research Centre Consolidator Grant project aimed at evaluating the effects of human behaviors on infections spread and control (IMMUNE project).