Giorgio completed his PhD in Demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Giorgio has a long-standing interest in the field of social gerontology, particularly in the demographic and social determinants of health and wellbeing in later life in Europe. Much of his work involves cross-national comparisons of the complex relationships between ageing and health using longitudinal secondary data and a life-course perspective. Giorgio has a keen interest and expertise in quantitative methodologies, including hierarchical modelling and causal inference.

Giorgio is currently working on the Wellbeing, Health, Retirement and the Lifecourse project (wherl.ac.uk). His research focuses on the complex relationships over time between paid work up to and beyond State pension age, and mental and physical health, taking lifecourse factors (i.e. family, paid work and health histories) and data missingness into account.

Giorgio is involved in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate level modules on statistics and quantitative data analysis and management, in addition to contributing to the gerontology postgraduate and intercalated BSc programmes.