Role
Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Holder of the Jean Monnet EUGlobA Chair (The EU as a Global Actor) and member of the Teaching Board of the Doctorate in Political and Social Sciences.
Bio
She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Florence in 2006. After serving as Deputy Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Southern Europe (CIRES), in 2008 she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies programme and a Visiting Fellowship at the European Union Institute for Security Studies.
Since 2013, she has been working at the University of Bologna, where she has been an associate professor since 2019. Her research focuses on the foreign policy and external relations of the European Union . She teaches "The EU as a Global Actor" and "EU Institutions and Crises" and is the director of the EU Foreign Policy Analysis workshop. Since 2023, she has been co-editor of the Annual Review on the European Union of the Journal of Common Market Studies.
She holds the Jean Monnet EUGlobA Chair, dedicated to the EU's global role. In 2025, she obtained the Italian National Academic Qualification for the role of Full Professor in Political Science. Her book, "EU-Turkey Relations. A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy?", received the 2022 UACES Award for Best Book.