Sonia Messori

 EDUCATION

• 2025, January 24th, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Ph.D. in Management and Economics. Supervisors: Prof. Serena Volo (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano) and Prof. Paolo Figini (Univ. of Bologna). Examiners: Prof. Andrea Mantovani (Tolouse Business School) and Prof. Raffaele Scuderi (Kore Univ. of Enna). Title of the Thesis: Essays in the Economics of Tourism Destinations.
• 2020, October 5th, University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy. Master of Science in Economics.
• 2018, October 30th, University of Bologna, Italy. Degree in Economics, Markets and Institutions.

Additional Education:

• 2022: Tourism Research Methods (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano); English for Academic Purposes (Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano); The Post-Pandemic Recovery (I.S.E.O. Institute); Academic Writing Skills (Univ. of Amsterdam); School of Research Methods (SIMA, SIM).
• 2021: R crash course (Univ. of Essex); Introduction to quantitative text analysis (Univ. of Essex); Tourism and Crisis (Univ. of Lausanne).
• 2020: Sustainability Disclosure in Corporate Reporting (Univ. of Milano Bicocca); Global studies in Russia (RANEPA); Politics Ontologies Ecologies (Univ. of Pisa).
• 2019: Futuring for sustainability (Univ. of Utrecht).
• 2018: Exchange student at the University of Vienna, Austria.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Present Positions:

• Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism, University of Bologna, Italy. Research Fellow (since April 2025).
• University of Brescia, Italy. Adjunct Professor (since January 2025).
• Journal of Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality. Editorial Assistant (since June 2025).

Previous Positions:

• 2023 (February)-2025 (March): Cassa Depositi e Presiti S.p.A, Rome, Italy. Economic Specialist.
• 2020 (February-March): Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT), Bologna, Italy. Trainee.
• 2019 (February-May): United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria, Trainee.

LANGUAGES

• Italian native
• English fluent
• German intermediate
• Russian intermediate
  

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• R
• Mathematica
• Bloomberg
  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2024

MTCON, Istanbul, Turkey; Tourism Research Methods Winter Scientific Retreat, Bruneck, Italy.

2023

EuroCHRIE, Vienna, Austria; Sapienza PhD Conference in Social Sciences and Economics, Rome, Italy; AHTMM, Rome, Italy; TEBEC, Verona, Italy.

2022

Economics PhD Summer Meeting, Rome, Italy; IATE, Perpignan, France; TTRA, Victoria, Canada; ISCONTOUR, Innsbruck, Austria; Internal PhD Workshop in Economics and Management, Bolzano, Italy.

2021

CTIS, Istanbul, Turkey; TOURMAN, Thessaloniki, Greece; PhD Internal Workshop, Bolzano, Italy.

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2022: International Association for Tourism Economics Executive Council.
• 2016: Congratulation Letter by Prof. Francesco Ubertini, Rector of the University of Bologna, for academic merit.
  

PEER REVIEW WORK

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Tourism Management, International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, International Journal of Tourism Policy, The Council for Australian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) 2023 Conference.