Role
Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Catania
Bio
A graduate in Political Science from the University of Catania, she earned a PhD in International Relations and the European Union from the University of Padua, with a thesis on European lobbying. She holds the Italian Chair of Mediterranean Diplomacy and Relations at the University of Malta, has been a researcher at the University of Catania since 2002 and an associate professor since 2004. She has been a Teaching Professor since 2007 in the Master's program in European Studies at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. She is the Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence DIPLOWideMed.
He also teaches at doctoral level (PhD in Political Science, University of Catania).
ANVUR evaluator since 2013.
She has been an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP) since 2025, of the Standing Group on European Union of the ECPR (2022-2026) and coordinator of the Research Group on European Unification (RC03) of the IPSA since 2025, as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Migration Politics and Governance of IMISCOE since 2023.
His publications, appearing in numerous A-list journals with international impact, focus on the European Union's relations with countries in the Middle East and North Africa , migration , and regional security issues. His research has been developed within the framework of Jean Monnet projects (EUDEM, EUMedEA, DIPLOWideMed) and the Horizon 2020 TRANSCRISIS project.