Marcello is the Deputy Director of the “Economics Sustainability Research Theme” within the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration – Greater Manchester (ARC-GM). He is a member of the Social Care Working Group (SCWG), a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) the latter being chaired by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA).

Marcello obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Univeristy of Essex with a thesis on "Latent factor modelling of disability". He also obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Bologna (Italy) developing a dynamic microsimulation model for the long-term analysis of the Italian social security system; a M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Data Analysis from the university of Essex.

Marcello joined the University of Manchester in 2018. Before (since 2008), He was a full-time researcher at the Health Economics Group based at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia (UK). Before moving to England, he was working at the Centre for the Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) at the Universities of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Bologna.

Marcello research fields are the economics of health and social care and the policy evaluation of service delivery and organisation. Marcello is specialised in studying: the public costs, the distributive implications and the targeting efficiency of health and long-term care policies; the personal costs that disability brings in later life; the empirical (ex-ante/ex-post) evaluation of policies aiming at influencing (un)healthy behaviours, health and social care services design, financing, delivery, integration and utilisation; and improving methodological approach to mixed methods research.

Marcello work is highly policy relevant and he has  a track record of engaging with national and international policy makers.