Niccolo is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses in particular on the policies underpinning advanced capitalist countries' transition into a knowledge-based post-industrial societies, with a specific interest on education, skills and labour market policies. He is currently working on a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust titled "The Political Economy of Knowledge-based Growth" together with David Hope (King's College London), Hanna Kleider (King's College London) and Sebastian Diessner (Leiden University).