[19.11.1973] Firenze, Italia Paolo studied Political Science at the Universita' degli Studi di Firenze and moved to New Orleans, LA in 1998. He started Columbia University in the Quantitative Methods master program in 2000 and continued studying at Columbia as a PhD student. He has worked on several projects in the fields of Methodology, Political Sociology and Historical Sociology. In 2004 Paolo moved to Rome in order to carry his research on the social production of miracles in the seventeenth century. He has had access to documents in the Vatican Secret Archive and in the Vatican Apostolic Library. He and his family are now in the process of relocating to the United States.