Andrea Giovannetti

I believe that reality is a set of interconnected entities: the properties and the complexity of such interconnections matter for understanding and impacting crucial social phenomena such as the diffusion of human behaviours.

In my work, I develop analytical models and apply high-power contemporary computational and statistical techniques to investigate and address complex real-life behavioural problems.

Examples of projects I am currently coordinating and working on include the analysis and the mitigation of gang violence in Greater London Area (about 9 million inhabitants) and the design of non-coercive policies to control the spread of radicalization in vulnerable populations of Victoria.

I welcome collaborations and partnerships with researchers and institutions on human-related big-data problems with a focus on the improvement of the wellbeing of societies.

At ACU, I am a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the U.S. system) in Economics and Quantitative Methods at the Faculty of Law and Business, based in Sydney. I am also co-director of the Tackling Hate Lab, at Deakin University.

Before joining ACU, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (the second most competitive individual grant in the world) at the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge, UK, where I retain a visiting position and I am an active member of the Violence Research Centre. In Cambridge, I co-instruct a course in analytics designed for police analysts from all over the world for the CCFEBP, led by Hon. Prof. L. Sherman.

I have active operative and research collaborations with the largest police force of Europe, London Metropolitan Police, and several U.K. organizations, including Merseyside and Cambridgeshire police forces.

I obtained my PhD in Economics in 2018 from the University of Southampton, UK. From 2018 to 2021 I worked as a research fellow at the Economics Department of University of Technology Sydney, where I received an award as best lecturer of the University with less than five years experience for a course in Behavioural Economics I redesigned, coordinated and lecturer between 2018 and 2021.