Role
Tenure-track researcher in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania.
Bio
He graduated in Politics and International Relations in 2009 and specialized in Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations in 2011 at the University of Catania. He earned a PhD in Institutions, Politics and Policies from the IMT in Lucca in 2015, with a thesis on the European Union's Neighborhood Policy in Tunisia and Morocco.
As a research fellow in political science (2018-2019; 2019-2020; 2020-2021) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Catania, she focuses her work on the migration crises in the Mediterranean and the European Union's migration and asylum policies in this area.
In 2021 she obtained the National Scientific Qualification (second level) and since 2022 she has been a fixed-term researcher (type A) at the University of Catania with a project on climate change and forced migration. She has carried out several research periods abroad: at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London (2013); at the Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco (2014); at the European External Action Service – Delegation of the European Union in Tunis, Tunisia (2014); at the University of Delaware and the U.S. Department of State (2019).
Currently teaching the course "The Political System of the European Union" at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania, for the 2022-2023 academic year.
His research focuses on migration and the policies of the European Union and Italy to manage these phenomena, from a political, humanitarian, policy instrument, and asylum perspective.