Education and Research Experience
2013 2nd PhD in Cross-Cultural Psychology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Dissertation “Does your identity makes you happy? Collective identifications and acculturation of youth in a post communist Europe”, Received the 2012 Student and Early Career Council Award (SECC) of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
2008 PhD in Developmental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy.
Dissertation “The immigrant Child: Psychological and Socio-cultural Adjustment to the Italian Host Culture” received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Developmental Psychology, Italian Association of Psychology
2004 MA Developmental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy
2001 BA Developmental Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy
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2015 Docent (Associate Professor) Nomination in Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science-Distinguished Research Grant on promoting positive identity and youth development in Japan and Sweden
2015 Fall Visiting Research Fellow, Tufts University, USA, Institute of Applied Research on Youth Development, IARYD led by Prof. Dr. Richard Lerner
2014 COFAS Forte Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2009-2013 Researcher Cross-Cultural Psychology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
2009 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Education, Brown University, USA
2008-2009 Post Doc, Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy.
2006-2007 Research Psychologist, Brent Centre for Young People, London, UK
2006-2007 Research Fellow, International Consortium of the University of Trieste, Italy