SICSS-Bologna

Filippo Andreatta

Filippo Andreatta teaches International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Bologna, where he is currently chair of the Department of Political and Social Science.

Giampiero Giacomello

Giampiero Giacomello is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research interests include strategic theory (mostly Clausewitz), cybersecurity and wargaming and simulation. He has extensively published on all of these topics.

Marco Albertini

Marco Albertini is Full Professor at the University of Bologna. His research interests focus on intergenerational relations; the consequences of separation and divorce; the comparative study of income inequality and social stratification; the consequences of childlessness; long-term care policies and ageing.

Matthew Loveless

Matthew Loveless is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. He investigates how individuals make sense of politics in Europe, focusing on public opinion, media use, and perceptions.

Aidar Zinnatullin

Aidar Zinnatullin is a PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. He studies how political discussions evolve in the context of authoritarian politics. In the research project, Aidar uses quantitative text analysis techniques and causal inference identification strategies.

Riccardo Omenti

Riccardo Omenti is a first-year PhD student in Statistics at the University of Bologna. His research interests concern the study of quantitative methods for the social sciences as well as the implementation of statistical techniques that allow to turn the traces people leave on social media and on the internet into data suitable for demographic research. During his PhD, Riccardo will develop statistical techniques to study the evolution of fertility, mortality and migration in family networks using internet-based genealogies as part of the ERC project “Genes, genealogies and the evolution of demographic change and social inequality.

Giulio Cantone

Giulio Giacomo Cantone is a PhD. Student in Complex Systems at University of Catania. He also spent 8 month at Indiana University in the NaN [https://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/people/] Research Group on Disinformation. His research background is in quantitative and simulation studies regarding commercial and political disinformation in online reviews (Review Bomb). His current interests are in Metascience and Sociology of Science, about disinformation and epistemic crises in scientific literature. In particular, his technical interests are in the sensitivity to data dredging in mainstream models of statistical regression.