SWISS100 represents an exciting opportunity to study and understand social networks, isolation, and loneliness among centenarians.
Current Position
- Researcher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
Educational Background
- PhD in Economic Sociology, University of Brescia, Italy
- MA in Sociology, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Prior Experience
- Researcher and survey manager, Golgi Cenci Foundation, Abbiategrasso, Milan, Italy
- Visiting researcher, Department of Sociology, Tillburg University, The Netherlands
- Post-doc fellow: Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan Bioccca, Italy
Research Focus
- Older people’ loneliness and social isolation
- Social Inequalities in later life
- Survey methodology
- Influence of work career on frailty in later life
- Advanced statistics for social sciences
Additional Experiences/Mile Stones
- Co-PI of the research project “Aging in a Networked Society – Older people, social networks and well-being”
- Member of the ISA-RC33 research group “Surveying older people: Age, cognition, and survey data quality”
- Member of the organizing committee of the 2021 Annual Conference of the European Survey Research Association – ESRA (Milan, July 2021)
Role In Swiss100
- Coordination of data collection in the Italian-speaking area
- Analyses and publications on sociological characteristics in Swiss Centenarians