Eugenio Paglino

Eugenio is a first-year PhD student in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BSc and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. He has previously worked at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Insititute as a research intern in the Generations and Gender Programme. Before becoming a PhD candidate, he worked as a research assistant at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. There he joined the IFAMID project under the supervision of Prof. Arnstein Aassve and investigated the impact of Chinese aid on women empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. His broad research interests include the population-environment interaction, migration, the computational social sciences, and inequality. He loves visualising data and is interested in studying ways in which data visualisation can help researchers to communicate more clearly and to reach a wider audience. Outside of research, he likes running and cycling and is a fan of cinema and D&D.