Assistant Professor (RTD-A) · Statistics for Social Sciences (STAT-03/B)
Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES)
University of Naples Federico II
I am an Assistant Professor (RTD-A, S.S.D. STAT-03/B) in Statistics for Social Sciences at the Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES), University of Naples Federico II, and I hold the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in field 13/D3 – Demography and Social Statistics (valid until June 2038).
My scientific activity sits at the intersection of advanced statistical methods, text mining, and data science, with applications spanning the mapping of scientific knowledge, the development of decision-support tools in academic, healthcare, and economic policy contexts.
I obtained my PhD in Social Sciences and Statistics (Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II) in 2025, with a thesis titled "From Scientific Knowledge Synthesis to Cutting-Edge Discovery: The Innovative Potential of Automatic Text Summarization in Scientific Literature" (Supervisors: Prof. Massimo Aria and Prof. Rosanna Cataldo).
I am a member of the academic spin-off K-Synth and co-author of the software TALL – Text Analysis for ALL, an R package and Shiny application officially released on CRAN with over 6,000 installations, and of themescopeR, an open-source R package for mapping social representations, also released on CRAN. I also contribute to the development of bibliometrix, one of the leading tools for scientometric analysis globally.
I have authored several scientific publications, including papers in Fascia A international journals, and presented at national and international conferences. I am also active in the scientific community as Associate Editor and reviewer for leading indexed journals.