Dottorato in Economics, Management and Statistics

Ebubekir Alimoglu
PhD candidate · Economics curriculum
Email: ebubekir.alimoglu@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Leone Leonida
Research interests: Banking competition; banking market structure; financial economics; industrial organization; applied econometrics

Antonella Anzelmo
PhD candidate · Economics curriculum
Email: antonella.anzelmo@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Francesco Gravina
Co-supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo Prete
Research interests: Economic development; inequality; economic history; social mobility

Davide Cassanelli
PhD candidate · Statistics curriculum
Email: davide.cassanelli@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Maria Gabriella Campolo
Research interests: Causal inference; randomised controlled trials; regime-switching models

Sara Cosio
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: sara.cosio@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Crupi
Co-supervisor: Prof. Tindara Abbate
Research interests: Research valorisation; AI-enabled technology transfer; digital platforms; university–industry collaboration

Andrea Morana
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: andrea.morana@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Ioppolo
Research interests: Sustainable territorial development; circular economy; sustainable tourism; AI for sustainable transitions

Solomon Sisay Mulugeta
PhD candidate · Statistics curriculum
Email: solomon.mulugeta@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Orietta Nicolis
Research interests: Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics; Bayesian hierarchical modelling; INLA–SPDE; machine learning

Talat Qadeer
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: talat.qadeer@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Veronica Marozzo
Research interests: Marketing; consumer behaviour

Rossana Arcano
PhD candidate · Economics curriculum
Email: rossana.arcano@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Emanuele Millemaci
Co-supervisor: Prof. Maurizio Lisciandra (LUMSA)
Research interests: Economics of crime; anti-corruption; public procurement; political economy

Mariangela Barraco
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: mariangela.barraco@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Guido Noto
Research interests: Healthcare management; performance measurement; digital health and AI in healthcare; management accounting

Alberto Bongiorno
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: alberto.bongiorno@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Maria Cristina Cinici
Research interests: Entrepreneurial ecosystems; entrepreneurship; innovation

Mert Mecit Erim
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: mert.erim@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Ioppolo
Co-supervisor: Prof. Katarzyna Szopik-Depczyńska
Research interests: Industry 5.0; Digital Twin; Emotional AI; innovation management; digital transformation

Ermiyas Tefera Gebrie
PhD candidate · Economics curriculum
Email: ermiyas.gebrie@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Giorgio Liotti
Research interests: Economic growth; institutional quality; external debt; political economy

Huy Le
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: huy.le@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Carmelo Marisca
Research interests: Accounting; accounting history; auditing; public accounting; public reporting

Thi Kim Oanh Nguyen
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: thi.nguyen13@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Roberta Salomone
Research interests: Sustainable supply chains and operations; circular economy; manufacturing and operational resilience; environmental impacts

Sofia Ruello
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: sofia.ruello@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Crupi
Research interests: Open innovation; technology transfer; innovation ecosystems; sustainable innovation; innovation management

Alberto Soraci
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: alberto.soraci1@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Fabrizio Cesaroni
Research interests: Innovation ecosystems; hydrogen valleys; quintuple helix model; business accelerators

Andrea Amanti
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: andrea.amanti@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Crupi
Co-supervisor: Prof. Alessandra Costa
Research interests: Innovation management; artificial intelligence; open innovation; technological trajectories; patent analytics; digital platforms; technology strategy

Vincenzo Belfiore
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: vincenzo.belfiore@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Elvira Tiziana La Rocca
Co-supervisor: Prof. Daniela Rupo
Research interests: Value creation; new technologies; creative industries

Francesco La Galia
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: francesco.lagalia@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Carmelo Marisca
Co-supervisor: Prof. Nicola Rappazzo
Research interests:

Endalkachew Kabtamu Mekonen
PhD candidate · Economics curriculum
Email: endalkachew.mekonen@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Busetta
Research interests: Labor economics; personnel economics; behavioral and experimental economics

Esri Nyituriki
PhD candidate · Statistics curriculum
Email: esri.nyituriki@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Maria Gabriella Campolo
Co-supervisor: Prof. Elvira Tiziana La Rocca
Research interests: Social inclusion; migration and integration; immigrant entrepreneurship; microfinance and financial inclusion

Federica Tonnarello
PhD candidate · Management curriculum
Email: federica.tonnarello@studenti.unime.it

Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Vermiglio
Research interests: Corporate social responsibility; sustainability reporting; public sector; green finance