Academic CV
Research
2022 - 2025
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Copenhagen Business School
I am currently leading multiple experimental interventions focused on sustainable consumer economics. These interventions encompass both online and field experiments, allowing for a comprehensive exploration of sustainable behavioral interventions together with more traditional economic and fiscal policies. To learn more about the BeaCon project, you can read about it here.
2024
Visiting Scholar | University of Cambridge
During this research stay, I have developed the design and ran the pilot data collection of one of my latest RCT "Carbon Taxes Crowd-out Climate Concerns" in collaboration with my co-author and host Lucia Reisch, director of the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics & Policy.
2018 - 2021
PhD in Economics | University of Copenhagen
In my previous research, I have conducted a controlled field experiment related to information provision and its impact on consumer behavior in the areas of food consumption, environmental awareness, and anthropogenic carbon footprint.
Additionally, I have led a study examining the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer behavior, specifically in relation to tobacco consumption. This study utilized a natural experiment design to understand the changes in behavior brought about by the pandemic.
Furthermore, I have explored the dynamics between attention, and decision-making strategies for across-sector research collaborations within the context of an eye-tracking laboratory.
2019
Visiting PhD | North Carolina State University
This research stay was focused on the paper redaction of the eyetracking study in collaboration of my co-author and host Beverly Tyler "Information acquisition and cognitive processes during strategic decision-making: combining a policy-capturing study with eye-tracking data." published in PLOS ONE in 2022.
2020
Visiting PhD | University of California San Diego
This research stay was planned but annulled because of COVID-19.
Education
2016 - 2018
2013 - 2016
2015 - 2016
2014
2008-2013
MSc Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | University of Copenhagen
BSc Economics & Management | University of Padova
BSc Exchange | Sorbonne University Paris 1
BSc Summer Program | Copenhagen Business School
High School Diploma in Languages & Classical studies | I.I.S. Marchesi Fusinato
Articles
Featured paper
Carbon taxes crowd-out climate concern: Experimental evidence from sustainable consumer choices. - with Jan Michael Bauer, Christina Gravert & Lucia Reisch - role: lead author
Manuscript available here – under review at the Economic Journal
Publications
What Shapes Sustainable Food Choices? A Field Experiment on the Impact of a Behaviorally Informed Intervention and a Price Variation on Sustainable Food Choices. - with Jan Michael Bauer & Lucia Reisch - role: lead author
Journal of Ecological Economics (forthcoming)
Demand-side interventions for sustainable food systems: A meta-analysis of food-policy interventions targeting food consumption and waste behaviours. - with Paul Lohmann, Jan M. Bauer, Tarun M. Khanna, Sarah Lynn Flecke, Max Callaghan & Lucia A. Reisch - role: second author
Food waste salience and task knowledge to reduce individual food waste: a field experiment in a restaurant setting. - with Manuel Suter, Jan M. Bauer & Lucia Reisch - role: lead author
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2025)
Do people respond to the climate impact of their behavior? The effect of carbon footprint information on grocery purchases. – with Toke Fosgaard and Sally Sadoff - role: lead author
Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics (2024)
Sustained decline in tobacco purchasing in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic. – with Toke Fosgaard and Sally Sadoff - role: lead author
Nature Communications Medicine (2022)
Information acquisition and cognitive processes during strategic decision-making: combining a policy-capturing study with eye-tracking data. – with Beverly B. Tyler, Toke Fosgaard and Karin Beukel - role: lead author
Working Papers
Can a Discount Save the Planet? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Sustainable Food Choices.
with Toke Fosgaard - role: second author
Under review at Journal of Cleaner Production
The Rich, the Sky, and a Carbon Tax: experimental evidence on air travel policy support.
- with Kristian Roed Nielsen and Kristian Steensen Nielsen - role: lead author
Target Journal: Nature Energy
Shrinking as a Nudge? The effect of product downsizing and hidden price increases on consumer purchases. - with Beatrice Biondi, Mario Mazzocchi, and Lucia Reisch - role: second author
Target Journal: Journal of Consumer Research
Unpublished Work
Making Public Policy with Private Politics. A theoretical model on activists’ possible regulatory role when public regulation fails. – with Julien Daubanes
Bridging the divide between industry and academic scientists. – with Beverly B. Tyler, Toke Fosgaard, Janet Bercovitz and Karin Beukel
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(Un)sustainable tipping points – funded by DFF (6,9 million DKK) – co-PI with Kristian Roed Nielsen
Sustainable Investments, Societal Tipping Points & Temporal Dynamics (co-PI). Experimental research examining early-adopters and late-adopters’ responses to value congruence and herd mechanism in sustainable investments and how social contagion shapes the adoption of sustainability behaviours.
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- PLANTTIP – funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation – grant #NNF24SA0096529
A study of the societal tipping points that can accelerate Denmark's transition to more sustainable consumption. We use an innovative connection of behavioural and social experimentation and agent-based models to understand and model how policy instruments, social interventions and commercial marketing measures, consumer-oriented innovations, and social dynamics can be combined to push forward this change.
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- BEACON – funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation – grant #NNF21SA0069203
The BeaCon project explores and tests behavioral changes towards sustainable lifestyles to support the building of a Circular Society. While our research focuses on food consumption experiments in a real world, urban setting, our findings apply to other consumption areas and systems of provision. The two field experiments have been developed in collaboration with the local municipality.
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- MYCOFLAVOR – funded by AgriFoodTure - grant #1152-00024A
The assigned Working Package focuses on gathering experimental evidence to develop a market strategy for the product introduction of upscaling for brewer's spent grain (BSG) derivatives employed to create meat-like gastronomical alternatives.
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- ØTTO MONSTEDS – travel grant funded by Øtto Monsteds Foundation
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CO2FOOD – partnership with tech company Spenderlog (internally funded within PhD budget)
A field experiment on information provision and consumer behavior in the framework of individual habits with an impact on climate change (food consumption and carbon footprint) via a smartphone app.
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- INTERACT – funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation – grant #21630
This research project explores the microfoundations that underlie the transmission of knowledge from university to industry and that will ultimately lead to socioeconomic impact. A choice experiment was conducted with university researchers and company employees in the food and science field to validate the underlying mechanisms of university-industry collaboration by investigating the decision-making criteria to collaborate.
Grants
Skills & Expertise
Data Analysis
Experimental design development
Experiment execution
Experimental pre-analysis plan
Experimental pre-registration
Ethical approval
Data controller and processor
Data management
Data security
Statistical analysis
Econometrics
Machine learning
Managerial
Project Management
Public Sector Collaborations
Business Partnership
Tendering Redaction
Funding Application
Supervision
Research Team Coordination
Communication
Academic lecturing
Public speaking
Workshop leading
Academic writing
News articles editing
Podcasting
Editorial
Softer skills
Ambitious and determined
Structured and organized
Creative and inquisitive
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Cooperation
Team building
Problem solving
Empathy
Languages
Softwares
Platforms
ITALIAN (MT)
ENGLISH (C1)
SPANISH (C1)
FRENCH (C1)
DANISH (B1)
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​Stata (excellent)
R (excellent)
LaTex programs (excellent)
Microsoft Office user
Adobe user
Qualtrics & Survey Exact
Prolific & Mturk
zTree
Wordpress
APSIS machine learning
Academic Network
Cambridge University
University of California San Diego
University of Bologna
University of Copenhagen
Danish Technical University
Oxford University
North Carolina State University
London School of Economics
University of Padova
Copenhagen Business School
Aarhus University
​University of Giessen