Gian Maria Campedelli
Gian Maria Campedelli is an Assistant Professor of Computational Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento and an affiliated Research Scientist with the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS Lab) at Dondazione Bruno Kessler.
He earned a PhD in Criminology from the Catholic University of Milan in 2020. From 2016 to 2019, he was a researcher at Transcrime, and in 2018 he served as a visiting research scholar with the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2020 to 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) under the “Departments of Excellence” initiative.
His research focuses on the development and application of computational methods to the analysis of violent crime (including homicide) and complex criminal phenomena such as terrorism and organized crime, as well as on the societal implications of multi-agent AI systems.
His work has been published in leading international journals, including Science, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Public Economics. His research has also been featured in major international newspapers such as The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times.
Spotlight's articles
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February 19, 2026I Want to Break Free!When AIs develop antisocial behavior. Interview with Gian Maria Campedelli, co-author of a new study exploring the implications and emerging risks of deploying persuasive, hierarchically organized autonomous agents -
October 3, 2025Data and algorithms to address failings in Italy’s justice systemThere are many miscarriages of justice that can occur in the Italian system: according to data from Innocent Project Italia, almost 32,000 between 1991 and 2024, for an average of 940 cases per year. This also causes economic damage to the state coffers, which have had to pay out around €1 billion in compensation over the last 35 years. -
September 29, 2025Wired Next Fest 2025 TrentinoFondazione Bruno Kessler will be one of the key participants at WIRED Next Fest Trentino 2025, taking place in Rovereto October 2 through 5. The Foundation's events will explore topics such as green hydrogen and the energy transition, citizen science, digital justice, AI in medicine, complex systems, human-machine interaction, and intelligent robotics. -
September 12, 2024Gian Maria Campedelli honored with the 2024 Early Career AwardFBK researcher awarded by the European Society of Criminology for his groundbreaking work in computational criminology -
March 7, 2024Measuring inequalities with statistical modelsThe new study by Gian Maria Campedelli, a researcher in the MOBS unit at the FBK Center for Augmented Intelligence, was published in the official journal of the American Society of Criminology -
September 22, 2023Curbing recruitment by cartels is the main way to reduce violence in MexicoStudy to which FBK researcher Gian Maria Campedelli contributed published in "Science".