Phd in SCHOOL OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES

email: elena.ambrosetti@uniroma1.it
phone: (+39) 0649766382 (int. 26382)

Elena Ambrosetti is Professor of Demography at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome. Her research, published in internationally renowned journals and publishing series, focuses on Mediterranean countries and in particular on fertility transition and international migration. After graduating with honors in Economics from La Sapienza University of Rome, she received her master's and doctoral degrees in Demography and Economics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po). She worked at the University of Aix-Marseille and at the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques in Paris. She was later recruited at Sapienza University in 2008 as a tenured University Researcher. In 2018 she became Associate Professor and in 2023 Full Professor. Since 2022 she has also held the position of General Secretary of the Italian Statistical Society.
She participates and has participated in numerous international research projects. During the last 5 years, she has been scientific responsible for Sapienza for the H2020 projects Perceptions (grant agreement no. 833870) and Covinform (grant agreement no. 101016247). She is regularly invited to give lectures and seminars on demographic issues at the international level. She is a regular visiting researcher at INED (France), Université d'Aix-Marseille (France), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (France) and Stockholm University Demographic Unit (Sweden). She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Genus-Journal of Population Sciences, European Journal of Population and was member of the editorial board of the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. On several occasions she has been a consultant for Italian or international institutions on issues related to international migration (e.g. Bertelsmann Stiftung, Save the Children Italy, European University Institute, European Commission, Ministry of Interior).