Luca Pinto

Luca Pinto graduated from the University of Milan, where he also completed his Master of Research. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Milan (2010). During his PhD he spent time as a visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).

From 2011 to 2015, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bologna, working first on a project on parliamentary fluidity in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and later on a project dealing with political representation in Italy. In 2012 he was a visiting fellow at the MZES (Germany).

Since 2011 he has been a teaching assistant for the courses of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Bologna and a researcher at the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo (Bologna).

In December 2015 he moved to the Institute of Human and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) to work on a project on uncoventional monetary policies of central banks.

His research interests include party competition, legislative studies, and coalition governments. He has published on these topics in several international journals and book chapters.