Amalia is a senior research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany and an Associate Researcher at the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation ( LABSS ) within the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies ( ISTC ) at CNR.

Amalia holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. She is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, Germany and an Associate Researcher at the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS) within the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at CNR.

Most of her work addresses social norms stigmatizing the overt expression of prejudice, such as racism, xenophobia, or sexism. In her current research, she investigates the role of social norms as a bulwark against hate speech online, how anti-prejudice norms are affected by sudden events, or how populist political rhetoric can undermine these norms.

In her research, she makes use of a wide range of experimental and quasi-experimental methods, including original lab-in-the-field online experiments, but also survey and lab experiments.