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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law and Business
Areas of expertise: quantitative criminology; human networks; simulations; programming; data analytics; computational methods; social sciences
Phone: +612 9739 2884
Email: Andrea.giovannetti@acu.edu.au
Location: 糖心原创 North Sydney Campus
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: HDR Supervisor (Provisional)
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7685-5644
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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 糖心原创, 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 糖心原创, I held a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie fellowship (the second most competitive individual grant in the world) at the of the University of Cambridge, UK, where I retain a visiting position and I am an active member of the . In Cambridge, I co-instruct a course in analytics designed for police analysts from all over the world for the , 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 , UK. From 2018 to 2021 I worked as a research fellow at the 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.