Stefania is an Associate Professor in Economics and a member of the Centre for Behavioural and Social Science (CBESS). She completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of East Anglia. She holds an MSc in economic from the same university and a BSc in Economics from the University of Cagliari (Italy). 

Stefania is an expert behavioural and experimental economist with a broad interest in understanding human decision-making in both individual and strategic contexts. To address her research questions, Stefania primarily uses laboratory experiments, but she has also employed quasi-experiments conducted in the field.  Her methodological contribution reflects her strong views on what laboratory experiments can and cannot achieve.

PhD Supervision Interests

• Behavioural Game Theory (Framing Effects)
• Consumer Behaviour (e.g Choice overload and complexity)
• Group Behaviour 
• Complexity and Individual Decision-Making
• Recycling and Sustainability
• Discrimination and Inequality
• Experimental and Economic Methodology
• Experimental and economic methodology

Sefania research lies at the intersection of behavioural economics, experimental economics, and applied microeconomics. One strand of her researach focuses on understanding how framing and contextual cues influence decision-making in both individual and strategic settings, with particular attention to salient labels in coordination games and group behaviour. Stefania has also developed research agendas on consumer decision-making under complexity, exploring how both the inherent complexity of the options and the number of available choices — leading to choice overload — affect behaviour. In addition, she works on environmental economics, particularly on incentivising recycling behaviours, and on inequality of opportunity. Stefania's work combines laboratory and field experiments and has been published in leading journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation and Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 

• Behavioural Microeconomics
• Behavioural Game Theory
• Experimental Economics
• Consumer Behaviour and Choice Complexity
• Sustainability and Environmental Behaviour
• Group Decision-Making and Strategic Interaction
• Framing Effects in Economic Decision-Making
• Inequality and Discrimination
• Behavioural Public Policy
• Experimental Methods and Economic Methodology