I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. I serve as editor of the journal East European Politics and editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy. I have previously chaired the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. I am also the founder and director of the ECPR Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’.
I hold an M.A. in Politics from the University of Sheffield and a Ph.D. in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena. I have been a visiting scholar at the Central European University (Budapest), the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), the University of Oslo, and the European University Institute (Fiesole). Before joining the Department of Political and Social Sciences in Bologna in 2022, I was first Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence).
My research interests cover the broad areas of comparative politics and political sociology, with a particular focus on extremism, radicalism, populism, and democracy; Euroscepticism; political parties and party systems; social movements and political participation; and research design and methodology in the social sciences.
On this website, you will find a list of relevant publications; scientific projects in which I am—or have been—involved; links to external resources; and a series of music playlists I have curated fortnightly between 2020 and 2025.