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Position: Associate Professor Sociology of Culture

Field of study: Sociology

Research topics: Inter-ethnic relation, sociology of migration, sociology of Islam, migration & integration policy, school-labour transition, qualitative methods

I was born and live in Turin and - although I have lived in many different parts of the world, from Europe to Australia to America - I feel closely bound to the city where in my leisure time I follow one of my main hobbies. I am greatly interested in aeronautics, particularly in latest-generation models, which fuse human ingenuity and technology's breathtaking leaps forward. But perhaps the most interesting experience I have done is to cross the Australian desert in a slow old train, all the while observing the surrounding emptiness.

Studying youth mobility and how countries manage both education and integration policies gives me an excellent excuse to indulge in my passion for travel. Of course there is considerable overlapping between leisure and working time. That's in my nature! In any case, whatever I do (attending the Olympic games in Sochi or a football match in Melbourne) and wherever I am (from San Francisco to Warsaw), the most important thing, I believe, is to do my work well and carefully; and if anybody accuses me of being over - meticulous, I like to think that feeling passionate about what we are doing is the essential aspect of our work as researchers.