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Daniela investigates population dynamics and contributes to evidence-based policy decisions. She earned her PhD in Demography from the Université de Montréal and specializes in migration and integration policy. She studied economics, statistics, law, and political sciences at the University of Pisa. 

Daniela adopts demographic methods and econometric approaches to analyze the social and human capital determinants of migration and assess the impacts of spatial patterns on population dynamics. Most of her work has taken a comparative perspective, looking across geographic regions at a scale ranging from global to high-spatial resolutions, as well as from developing to developed countries. She applies micro-macro projection models to detect the long-term effects of the current population trends, exploring future demographic challenges and scenarios on population vulnerability to environmental and climate risks.

Daniela currently holds a teaching position at University of Catania, Department of Political Sciences. Prior to this, she was Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration. She has collaborated with international, European, and national institutions, and held assistant teaching positions in migration and demographic methods. She worked as scientific expert at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, examining the demographic and social determinants of migration and mobility at local, regional, and international levels. Daniela has served the Italian Ministry of Interior, contributing to the impact assessment of migration and integration policy actions, under the framework of the European Commission’s Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund. Daniela was part of the European Asylum Support-Office, aimed at the development of the Common European Asylum System, to enhance the governance of international migration through the cooperation and social dialogue among the main stakeholders engaged in asylum-related activities.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

With Goujon,  A., Natale, F,. Alredo, A., Petroliagkis, F. (2023). . Population and Environment 45,(8).

With Bignami-Van Assche, S., & Stilianakis, N. I. (2023).  Population Studies, 1-12.

With Bratti, M., & Bignami, S. (2023).  International Migration.

With Bosco, C., Natale, F., Loeschner, J., & Goujon, A. (2022). Population, Space and Place.

With Bignami-Van Assche, S., & Stilianakis, N. I. (2022). . Health Policy, 126 - 19, 945 - 955.

With Goujon, A., & Natale, F. (2022).  Demographic Research, 46, 261 - 272. 

With Bratti, M., & Bignami, S. (2022). . International Migration Review, 1 - 38.

With Acosta, E., Fisman, D., Noymer, A., Stilianakis, N. I., & Assche, S. B. V. (2021). . Canadian studies in population, 48, 131 - 137.

With Bignami-Van Assche, S., Boujija, Y., & Stilianakis, N. I. (2021).  The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 7, 100174.

With Goujon A, Natale F. and Conte A. (2021) . Journal of Population Research 39,  533–556.

Policy Reports

With Natale F., Alessandrini A., Goujon A., Petroliagkis T. (2021), . EUR 30881 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

With Grubanov Boskovic S., Goujon A., Kalantaryan S., Belmonte M., Scipioni M., et al. (2021),  EUR 30593 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.

With Aurambout, J.P., Batista E Silva, F., Bosco, C., Conte, A., Kalantaryan, S., et al. (2021), . EUR 30498 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.