Award-winning data journalist and computer scientist. Code, maps and narratives, published across four continents.
I'm an Italian data journalist with a computer science soul. For over a decade I've been mixing algorithms with shoe-leather reporting to tell stories about migration, the environment and the people behind the numbers.
As Chief Data Officer at Code for Africa, the continent's largest network of civic technology and data journalism labs, I build teams of developers, designers and storytellers producing cross-border journalism and digital tools for civic engagement.
My projects have been published by Der Spiegel, El País, The Guardian, Daily Maverick and Internazionale. I've been an ICFJ Knight Fellow, and I teach and train journalists across Europe and Africa.
A decade of newsroom and field experience, condensed into eight axes. Data journalism lives at the intersection of disciplines: this is how mine balances out. Hover the chart to explore each one.
I think of data as the connective tissue between disciplines. Research feeds the analysis. Code makes it reproducible. Design makes it readable. Strategy makes it matter. AI sits across all of it, a force multiplier that makes every axis of this chart sharper.
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A cross-border investigation counting the human cost of Fortress Europe, with data on thousands of migrants who died trying to reach the continent.
🏆 Data Journalism Award 2014
Putting Lagos' floating community of 250,000 people on the map, with drones, canoes and local women trained as mappers. With Code for Africa and the Pulitzer Center.
🏆 Sigma Award 2021
An open platform using satellite imagery and AI to map the spread of illegal mining across Africa. With Code for Africa, Earth Genome and the Pulitzer Center.
🛰️ Satellite + AI
An interactive map of Médecins Sans Frontières' search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, visualising missions that saved thousands of lives at sea.
🌊 Interactive map
A crowdsourced, cross-border investigation into the new wave of young Southern Europeans emigrating after the financial crisis.
📰 Featured on Columbia Journalism Review
An interactive map of deaths in Italian prisons since 2002. Published by The Guardian, it is recognised as Italy's first data journalism project.
🇮🇹 Italy's first data journalism project
A civic tech map of road crashes in Rome, surfacing the city's most dangerous intersections to push for safer streets, built on open data.
🛣️ Civic tech & open data
A data-driven journey across the world's great rainforests, from the Amazon to the Congo Basin to Indonesia.
🌍 Published in six countriesI'm always up for collaborations, talks, trainings and ambitious cross-border projects. Let's talk.