Cecilia is a Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology in the SPSPA department and part of the University of Exeter Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2). She is interested in researching organised forms of crime, serious violence and criminal networks by means of quantitative methods, especially longitudinal and network-based approaches.

Prior to joining the University of Exeter, Cecilia was a Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. She holds a Master’s Degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University (Milan) and a PhD in Criminology from the Catholic University in Milan awarded in 2021. While completing her PhD, she worked as a researcher at Transcrime, the joint research centre on transnational crime of the Catholic University in Milan, where she collaborated on different international projects on the topics of organised crime and transnational trafficking.