Prizes and awards
Many of our academics lead the way in their field of research. Find out more about some of our recent prize winners.
Research projects awarded with SPS interdisciplinary researchers grants:
GIULIA GIUPPONI, ZACHARY PAROLIN, CLEMENTE PIGNATTI
"Minimum Wages, Organized Labour, and Earnings Inequality"
AMELIA COMPAGNI, VALENTINA MELE, LETIZIA MENCARINI, PAOLA PROFETA
"Exploring Innovative and Alternative Approaches to Elective Abortion: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Societal, Technological, and Organizational Dynamics"
NICOLETTA BALBO, MARIA CUCCINIELLO
"Analyzing and the Impact of Recreational Therapy for Families with a Disabled Child and Designing New Recreational Services"
MARLENE JUGL, KERIM CAN KAVAKLI, ALEKSANDRA TORBICA
"Health System Performance in a Global Context: Exploring the Political, Social, and
Institutional Dimensions"
MARLENE JUGL
"IRSPM Christopher Pollitt Prize for Best Conference Paper. Awarded at the IRSPM conference in Tampere in April 2024"
"Bocconi Junior Researchers’ Grants – Year 2024 for the research project "Persistence and Change in Administrative Systems: A Historical Comparison of Non-
Paradigmatic Cases"
ROSANNA TARRICONE
Rosanna Tarricone’s research project “HARMONISED APPROACH TO EARLY FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION” has been awarded with a Horizon Europe Grant
MARLENE JUGL
IRSPM Christopher Pollitt Prize for Best Conference Paper. Awarded at the IRSPM conference in Budapest in April 2023.
STEFANIA GEREVINI
Stefania Gerevini's research project “Invisible, in plain sight: the metalwork altarpieces of medieval Venetia” awarded with the Bocconi Junior Researchers’ Grants – Year 2023
SCOTT WILLIAMSON
Scott Williamson's research project "Democratic Values and Authoritarian Legitimacy” awarded with the Bocconi Junior Researchers’ Grants – Year 2023
ALTOMONTE CARLO
Research Excellence Award 2023
GIULIA GIUPPONI
Research Excellence Award 2023
KERIM KAN KAVAKLI
Research Excellence Award 2023
ZACHARY PAROLIN
Research Excellence Award 2023
PAOLA PROFETA
Research Excellence Award 2023
GIULIA GIUPPONI
Modigliani Research Grant
ZACHARY PAROLIN
Zachary Parolin, Assistant Professor at Bocconi Department of Social and Political Sciences, obtained a €1.4mln ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council for ExpPov - The Experience of Poverty in the Post-Industrial Economy, a research project aiming to find a new conceptual approach for understanding poverty and a new methodological framework for the collection of data related to the experience of poverty.
DAVID STUCKLER
David Stuckler, Professor at Bocconi’s Department of Social and Political Sciences, has won an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council worth over €1.8m. The new project will generate new evidence on the human costs of austerity measures in Italy and other European Countries.
ALESSIA MELEGARO
Alessia Melegaro, Director of the Bocconi COVID Crisis Lab, won a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant in 2011 for a project aiming to integrate demographic trends and social interactions into epidemiological models and has now obtained a ERC Consolidator Grant of about € 2mln for IMMUNE - Modelling the Impact of Human Behaviours on Infections Spread, a project meant to incorporate dynamic human behavior and, particularly, vaccination decisions.
PAOLO PINOTTI
Paolo Pinotti, holder of Bocconi's Endowed Associate Professorship in Economic Analysis of Crime, funded by an anonymous individual donor, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of about € 1.8mln, awarded by the European Research Council, for the research project CLEAN - Clean Evidence on Dirty Deeds. With this five-year project Prof. Pinotti continues his research thread on organized crime studied through quantitative tools and methodologies taken from economics.
CATHERINE DE VRIES
Catherine De Vries has joined Bocconi’s Department of Social and Political Sciences on 1 January, 2020 as a Full Professor, bringing to Milan an ERC Consolidator Grant of about € 2mln, won in December for her research project LOSS - Narratives of Loss: Unravelling the Origins of Support for Socially Conservative Political Agendas. The project investigates the link between economic hardship and the support for far right parties.
TAMAS VONYO
Tamás Vonyó obtained a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth €1.49mln with his SpoilsofWAR - Spoils of War: The Economic Consequences of the Great War in Central Europe research project. At the crossroads of economic and business history, it will investigate the consequences of the war independent from those of the postwar political settlement.
GUIDO ALFANI
The economic historian Guido Alfani has obtained a € 1.5mln worth, five-year ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for his research project SMITE - Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe: 1300-1800. “The goal of SMITE is to improve our knowledge of long-term trends in social mobility, from the decades immediately preceding the Black Death of 1347-49 up until the eve of Industrialization”, Prof. Alfani explains. The grant follows the conclusion of another of Alfani’s research programs, EINITE - Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800, that had gained Alfani a ERC Starting Grant five years ago.
FRANCESCO BILLARI
Francesco Billari proposed a study of the multiple effects of digitization on family behaviors, an analysis of demographic changes in situations of strong discontinuity. The study on digitization is part of the larger project DisCont - Discontinuities in Household and Family Formation, funded with an ERC Advanced Grant of about € 2.4mln and hosted by Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy.
ARNSTEIN AASSVE
In his ERC project IFAMID - Institutional Family Demography awarded with about € 1.9mln, hosted by Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Arnstein Aassve uses this perspective to explain demographic trends as the result of the interaction between global change and local cultural and institutional features, whilst the existing literature stresses the importance of the policies observed across countries. Aassve was already awarded with an ERC grant in 2007 for Consequences of Demographic Change.