I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Exeter, where I work on the OPTED (Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies) and PRECEDE (Populism’s Roots: Economic and Cultural Explanations in Democracies of Europe) projects.
I obtained my PhD in Political Science from the King’s College London, and hold a BA in Political Science and master’s degrees in Management of Public Administrations and European Affairs. I’m also member of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP).
I study public opinion - particularly public support for EU integration - and the responsiveness of non-majoritarian institutions and of the EU policy-making process. I am particularly interested in methodologies like quantitative text analysis, machine learning algorithms and item response approaches.
PhD in Political Science, 2022
King's College, London
MSc in Management of Public Administrations, 2016
Bocconi University, Milan
MA in European Affairs, 2016
SciencesPo, Paris
BA in Political Science, 2014
University of Naples
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This online survey assessed the research challenges, training needs and preferences of researchers and practitioners (of all seniority and skills level) that use or are interested in using text analysis techniques in their research. The survey has been conducted within the context of the Horizon 2020 OPTED project.
This project presents an easy to use application to gather key data and textual summaries of EU legislative proposals from the European Parliament’s Legislative Observatory and EUR-Lex websites. All the information is stored in spreadsheets and can be quickly imported in any software for statistical analysis as well as quantitave text analysis.
University of Exeter, Department of Social and Political Sciences
Teaching Assistant (2023)
Dissertation supervisor, Undergraduate (2022-2023)
King’s College London, School of Politics and Economics
Teaching Assistant (2018-2021)