Valeria Cirillo is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Department of Political Science), external affiliate of the Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and member of MinervaLab – Laboratory on Diversity and Gender Inequality – based at Sapienza University of Rome. She is also member of the board of the PhD School in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome.
She was previously researcher in applied economics at the National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies in Rome. Previously, she was Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and at the Department of Statistical Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome. She works on labour market dynamics, technologies, occupations, inequalities. She defended her PhD thesis in Economics at the Department of Social and Economic Analysis at Sapienza University of Rome and received her master’s degree in Development Economics from Sussex University (UK). In 2020 she led the research project “Case studies of Automation in services” for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and she is currently leading the UNIBA team for the Horizon 2021 project BRIDGES5.0 - Bridging Risks to an Inclusive Digital and Green future by Enhancing workforce Skills for industry 5.0.
She published more than 40 research outputs, of which 17 papers in top-ranked international peer-reviewed journals. Journals of publication include: Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Papers in Regional Science, Studies in Higher Education, Industry and Innovation, Sustainability, Applied Economics, International Labour Review, Economia Politica, Intereconomics, Investigación Economica, Eurasian Business Review, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. She has also contributed to books edited by Springer Nature (Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics) and Routledge advances in heterodox economics (Varieties of Income Inequalities).
In 2019, she was Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Digitalizing industry? Labor, Technology and Work organisation" for the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, edited by Springer.