Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions

About the Speaker

Gian Maria Campedelli is a Research Scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler.
He earned a PhD in Criminology from Università Cattolica in 2020. During his doctorate, he worked as a research associate at Transcrime and, in 2018, as a visiting research scholar at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science. Following his PhD, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Trento.

His research focuses on developing computational methods to study criminal phenomena and emergent behaviors in multi-agent AI systems. His works have been published in all the leading criminology journals and in other prestigious venues, such as the Journal of Public Economics and Science. Commentaries on his research have appeared in international outlets including The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Financial Times, and The Economist. In 2024, he received the Early Career Award from the European Society of Criminology.

Discussant

Filippo Gioachin, Università di Trento