Aulo Gelli

Aulo Gelli works as a senior research fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His main interests and experience intersect food policy and nutrition, with a particular focus on evaluating the impact of child health and nutrition interventions. Aulo trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, then gained a MSc degree in information processing and neural networks at Kings College London working on semantic memory models, and then studied human perception and cognition at the Laboratory of Neurobiology at University College London. He transitioned his career towards food policy, gaining a MA in development economics and food security at the University of Rome, and a DPhil from the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College. Prior to working at IFPRI, Aulo worked as a research fellow at Imperial College (2009-2013), as policy analyst at the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (2007-2009), and as a statistician at the World Food Programme (2004-2007).