Federico is currently advancing two major streams of research. The first focuses on high-income countries’ transition to the knowledge economy, in collaboration with researchers from King’s College London, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leiden. This project aims to quantify these transitions and examine their political and policy drivers, as well as their effects on political preferences. The second research stream steams from his role as co-principal investigator on the project ‘Welfare State Change as a Polanyian Double Movement: How Social Policy Change Affects Women Across Different Social Classes’. In partnership with Professor Emanuele Ferragina (Sciences Po Paris), the project combines insights from comparative social policy, political economy and sociology to analyse how different labour market protection and family policy reforms impacted women from lower social classes. Overall, the project aims to kick-start a new critical research agenda in comparative social policy and comparative sociology, which foregrounds the role of class and gender.

Before joining the Department of Social Policy as an LSE Fellow in September 2024, Federico was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Political Economy at King’s College London. He completed his PhD in Sociology at Sciences Po Paris in 2022, with a thesis titled ‘Labour Market Protection and Family Policy in High-Income Countries: Continuity and Change (1990-2020)’.