Biography

Carolina Biliotti is a PhD candidate in Economics, Networks and Business Analytics at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, where she is expected to defend her dissertation in June 2025. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Florence and is an affiliate researcher at the Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of causal inference, policy evaluation, and the science of science. Her work primarily focuses on gender dynamics in authorship and recognition within scientific publishing, particularly in scientific innovation and rapidly evolving research fields. Her methodological expertise includes quasi-experimental causal inference, as well as supervised machine learning, text-analysis and natural language processing.
During her Max Weber Fellowship, she aims to pursue new research opportunities, finalize and disseminate on-going work, and continue building her academic profile through both research and teaching.
Her past experience includes serving as a teaching assistant for machine learning courses offered to first-year PhD students in Economics at IMT and to Master's students.

Mentor

• Fabrizia, Mealli

Fields of expertise