Supervised

• Sarah Cristina Ribeiro Ferreira, enrolled in October 2025.
• Pierre Boutros, enrolled in 2023, thesis title “The Road To Excellence: Navigating the Factors that Shape PhD Student Outcomes”, Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG.
• Alberto Corsini, Université Côte d’Azur, successfully defended in 2022, best thesis award. Thesis title “Scientific Networks and IDEX Funding”, Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG.
• Justin Quemener, enrolled in 2021, thesis title “Les impacts de la recherche sur la technologie et l’innovation : Mesure et interprétation des citations de publications scientifiques dans les brevets”, Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG.
• Davide Bonaglia, enrolled in 2019, thesis title “Novel technologies’ creation and diffusion: The role of multinational enterprises, global cities and inventors”, UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.

PhD defense committees

• Rodrigo Ito, UNI-MERIT (April 2026).
• Nicolas Jalabert, University of Strasbourg (November 2025).
• Heman Khouilla, University of Toulon (November 2025).
• Francesco Serraino, “The role of Entrepreneurship Education in enhancing entrepreneurial propensity, behavior, and performance”, Politecnico di Torino (17 March 2025).
• Isabel Cavalli, “Three essays on policy evaluation, innovation, and public economy” (Nice, December 2024).
• Jin Ding, “The evolution and dynamics of Sectoral System of Innovation – A case study of orphan drug innovation in the US”, University of Edinburgh, Economics (Edinburgh, 23 February 2018).
• Thorsten Doherr, “Disambiguation of Researcher Careers: Shifting the Perspective from Documents to Authors”, University of Luxembourg, Economics (Luxembourg, 28 June 2018).
• Emilia Filippi, “Automation and its impact on occupations and employment” (Trento, 16 March 2023).
• Yassine Guerroud, “Three essays on eco-innovation at the firm level” (Nice, 7 October 2021).
• Bastian Krieger, “Public Policy And Firm Innovation” (Luxembourg, 14 October 2022).