Gabriele is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore. His research lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy, comparative politics, and European Union economic governance.

In his doctoral thesis, he analysed the evolution of fiscal, public investment, and industrial policies in Italy and Germany, from austerity to post-pandemic expansion, from the European Green Deal to the return of the Stability Pact. In explaining different trajectories of policymaking and growth models, he emphasized the combined role of different industrial and political coalitions, their agency and ideas, as well as sectoral and productive transformations.

During his PhD, he visited the Jacques Delors Centre (Hertie School) in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, where he was also a research assistant (for Prof. Lucio Baccaro and Prof. Arianna Tassinari). He is also a founding member of the Economic Sociology and Political Economy Working Group at SNS, and a coordinator of the 2026 Spring School in Political Economy of Production and Labor.

Previously, he obtained a MA in International Affairs from the University of Bologna and a BA in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Pavia.

Research interests: fiscal and industrial policy, coalitions, growth models, decarbonization, and EU economic governance