Role
Researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan and associate researcher for the ISPI Africa Program.
Bio
She earned her PhD in Political Studies in 2022 from the University of Milan, with a thesis on domestic decision-making processes in countries subject to international sanctions. In 2020-2022, she collaborated on the VERSUS project, coordinated by the University of Sussex and funded by the European Research Council, focusing primarily on political crises and conflicts in Ethiopia.
Previously, he worked on global politics for the ISPI Africa Programme and the European External Action Service (EEAS). His current research focuses on authoritarianism, the comparative analysis of political regimes, and the processes of democratization and autocratization. He also studies the effects of external pressures, such as development aid and economic sanctions, on these dynamics, with a primary empirical focus on Africa.
She is currently a researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan and an Associate Research Fellow for the ISPI Africa Program.