About me
I am a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in Rome, where I am the coordinator of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS). I am also Senior Researcher of Institute of Future Studies, Sweden.
My research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change of social norms and their effect in sustaining behavior in contexts characterized by collective risks, such as pandemics and climate crises. Recently, I have become interested in understanding how cooperation and social norms evolve within hybrid collectives, composed of both humans and artificial agents.
To address these issues and develop models of norm emergence and change, I combine theoretical approaches, empirical surveys, big data, experiments with humans and artificial agents, and agent-based simulations.
I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2007. I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2010-2011) and post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (2012-2017). My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such Nature Communications, Social Forces, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Synthese, Complexity, and Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. On the topic of social norms, I have recently published the Special Issues Social norm change: drivers and consequences in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (with R. Mace, S. Gavrilets, M. Gelfand, E. Vriens) and Norm Change in Current Opinion in Psychology (with C. Bicchieri and M. Gelfand) and the book Minding Norms for Oxford University Press.
I have been the Principal Investigator of several projects, receiving funding from the European Commission, the Italian Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Wallenberg Foundation. I am now the PI of the Norms@Risk project from the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research to study social norms and cooperation in situations of collective risk (2024-2029).
I am a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in Rome, where I am the coordinator of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS). I am also Senior Researcher of Institute of Future Studies, Sweden.
My research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change of social norms and their effect in sustaining behavior in contexts characterized by collective risks, such as pandemics and climate crises. Recently, I have become interested in understanding how cooperation and social norms evolve within hybrid collectives, composed of both humans and artificial agents.
To address these issues and develop models of norm emergence and change, I combine theoretical approaches, empirical surveys, big data, experiments with humans and artificial agents, and agent-based simulations.
I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2007. I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2010-2011) and post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (2012-2017). My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such Nature Communications, Social Forces, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Synthese, Complexity, and Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. On the topic of social norms, I have recently published the Special Issues Social norm change: drivers and consequences in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (with R. Mace, S. Gavrilets, M. Gelfand, E. Vriens) and Norm Change in Current Opinion in Psychology (with C. Bicchieri and M. Gelfand) and the book Minding Norms for Oxford University Press.
I have been the Principal Investigator of several projects, receiving funding from the European Commission, the Italian Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Wallenberg Foundation. I am now the PI of the Norms@Risk project from the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research to study social norms and cooperation in situations of collective risk (2024-2029).
