Role
Senior Research Fellow and Co-Head of the Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Observatory, ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies).
Bio
She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Salento, a Master's in European Studies from the University of Roma Tre, and a Research Master's in International Relations from the Institute of International Studies in Barcelona. She also holds a PhD in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, where she was a Marie Curie Fellow.
She worked as a researcher at the Brussels office of the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue and as a research assistant at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs, where she remains affiliated as a non-resident fellow.
She is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Head of the Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Observatory at ISPI. She is an expert on regional powers, particularly Russia and Turkey and their relations with the European Union, as well as on non-Western visions of international relations and soft power .