Jacopo
Peracchio
I investigate hybrid threats, organized crime and illicit networks with reproducible pipelines built entirely from open sources — every claim traceable, every dataset auditable.
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Research Programmes
Four standing lines of work where social theory meets measurable, reproducible evidence. Hover a box — its image is declassified.
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Hybrid Threats
Influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behaviour, astroturfing and disinformation dynamics — measured against verifiable open-source traces.
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Organized Crime
Social network analysis of illicit ecosystems, money-laundering typologies and transnational flows — grounded in field-tested methods from the Prato district study.
TAG-03
Terrorism & Armed Groups
Mobilisation dynamics, radicalisation pathways and network structures of armed organisations.
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Social Organisation Online
How online collectives organise, signal and mobilise: synthetic influence networks and community self-regulation across diasporic spaces.
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Method & Tradecraft
Mixed-methods tradecraft: ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviewing combined with computational analysis — developed on a live case study of transnational organised crime in the Prato industrial district (MA thesis, 110/110 cum laude) and applied since in OSINT collection and analysis pipelines.
Web scraping & data pipelines (Python)
Social network analysis (Gephi, ForceAtlas2, PageRank, modularity)
Machine learning & regression (R, Cook's distance, Breusch-Pagan)
OSINT: dorking, court records, Wayback Machine, digital footprint
Qualitative: ethnography, key-informant interviews
LLM multi-agent systems & sociological theory
Local-first & privacy-preserving AI orchestration
Source evaluation
Admiralty-style reliability and credibility ratings applied to every source before it enters a dataset.
Chain of custody
Provenance tracked from collection to final product — every figure traces back to its origin.
Reproducibility
Pipelines are versioned, tested and CI-checked. Results are re-runnable, not screenshots.
Privacy by design
Public sources only. Collection and storage are GDPR-aware and local-first where it matters.
Core stack
- Python
- R
- Gephi / networkx
- pandas
- SQLite
- Web scraping
- OSINT
- SNA
- Machine learning
- LLM agents
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- OpenSSL
- POSIX Shell
- RFC 5322 / MIME
- Digital Forensics
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Tools & Analytic Products
Built for real collection and analysis work — documented, tested, and running on hardware you control.
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Engine · Forensics
eml-forensics
Offline e-Discovery & digital forensics CLI engine for
.emlcorpora: RFC 5322 MIME parsing, SHA-256 chain of custody, CAdES.p7munwrapping, conversation DAG latency/blackout metrics, and orientation-aware OCR. -
CLI · OSINT / KYC
albo-search
Unified CLI query tool for Italian official professional registries (Lawyers, Accountants, Cassa Forense, Ministry of Interior). Headless automation across legacy JSF/PrimeFaces endpoints.
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Tool · OPSEC
cleanrepo
Deterministic pre-publish OPSEC and anti-leak scanner. Detects cloud credentials, private keys, RFC 1918 networks, and high Shannon-entropy tokens with native Git staged/history inspection and ROT13 wordlists.
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Tool · CLI
TallyHo
Italian electoral time series from 1946 to today, municipality by municipality, straight from ministerial open data. Python CLI exporting CSV/JSON/XLSX/Parquet.
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Engine
Arachne-Scholar
Local-first knowledge-graph engine for academic literature: PDF ingestion, SVO dependency parsing, network metrics, OCR. Runs fully offline on your own hardware.
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Research code
hybrid-kg-paper
Companion experiment to Arachne-Scholar: same deterministic SVO backbone, plus quantified LLM enrichment (10+ relation types, 42 multi-hop inferences, GED 0.0).
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MA thesis
Economic Networks and Illicit Practices in the Prato District
Sociological analysis of the Chinese presence in Prato between mafia-type infiltration and community self-regulation — fieldwork and network analysis on a live case.
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Education
2023–2026
Università degli Studi di Torino
MA in Sociology and Social Research
110/110 cum laude — thesis on illicit economic networks in the Prato district (full entry under Analytic products).
2025
Università degli Studi di Torino, Future Scenarios Lab
Certificate, Apr–Jun 2025
Frameworks for future-scenario analysis: which factors and events correlate and show causal links with a phenomenon in its future development. Skills: information analysis, risk management.
2025
Università degli Studi di Torino, Algorithms & Society Lab
Certificate, Feb–Apr 2025
2019–2023
Università degli Studi di Firenze
BA in Political Science
103/110 — thesis: “New Technologies, Old Inequalities: a Critical Analysis of Digital Human Resources”.
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Languages
Italian
Native
English
B2 · CEFR
Spanish
B1 · CEFR
Chinese
A2 · CEFR
Public work is written in English; fieldwork is conducted in Italian.