Role
Full Professor of Political Science, International Relations, and the Political System of the European Union at the University of Catania. Director of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania (2025-2029).
Bio
She graduated in Political Science, majoring in International Relations, from the University of Catania and earned a PhD in International Relations from the University of Padua. She is a full professor of Political Science and International Relations and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Policy.
She has held the position of Academic Senator at the University of Catania and the Rector's Delegate for International Relations. She was Vice-Rector of the University of Catania from 2022 to 2025 and is Director of the Department of Political and Social Sciences for the four-year period 2025-2029. She is a member of the teaching staff of the Doctorate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/Florence and is coordinator of the Standing Group on Organized Crime of the European Consortium for Political Research.
His research interests have always focused on issues related to the European Union . He began by studying the Union's foreign policy and later studied the structure of the EU's political system and the processes of common policy formation. His current research focuses on the European Union's internal and external security policies, as well as the EU's and Italy's immigration policies . He also analyses Italian foreign policy.
She was President of the Italian Society of Political Science from 2018 to 2021 and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society of European Studies.