Chiara Vagnini

Chiara Vagnini is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the decarbonization of the industrial sector, analyzed through spatial econometric models, and on studying the impact of cognitive biases in decision-making processes related to the selection of sustainable suppliers.

She earned her Master’s degree with honors in Management Engineering from the University of Bologna, during which she spent a semester abroad at the Technische Universität Berlin. She subsequently completed her Ph.D. in General Management, also at Bologna, conducting a six-month research period at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, where she collaborated with the Sustainable Business Initiative group.

Since 2021, she has been a teaching assistant in Business Management and a member of the Observatory on Business Sustainability. She has published in Regional Studies and has other papers currently under review in international academic journals.