Role
Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Trieste. Rector's Delegate for Mobility and International Relations.
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from the University of Bologna (2003), she obtained a Master 's degree in European Parliamentary Institutions and Constitutional History from the University of Rome La Sapienza (2004) and a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena (2008). She then worked as a research fellow at the University of Siena until 2011, when she moved to Lisbon in 2012 with a postdoctoral fellowship and, since 2016, as a fixed-term researcher at the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon. At the end of 2018, she returned to Italy, to the University of Trieste, as a fixed-term Senior Researcher, where she currently works as an Associate Professor of Political Science. He has been assistant editor of the journal South European Society and Politics since 2016 and managing editor of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica since 2019. Since 2022, he has been co-chair of the Standing Group on Government, Parliament, and Representation of the Italian Society of Political Science.
His main research interests are the comparative analysis of representative institutions in contemporary political systems and the study of the behavior of various institutional actors in the parliamentary arena, with a particular focus on the role and characteristics of the parliamentary opposition. Over the years, his research has focused on Italy and, since the Eurozone economic crisis, on Southern Europe more generally, with a special focus on the Portuguese case. He has participated in and coordinated national and international research projects on these topics, based in both Italy and Portugal. He currently heads the Trieste research unit of the PRIN project "Democracy under Pressure" and is a member of research teams for several international projects, based in Portugal and Spain.