I am a Research Associate/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Previously, I worked as Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Exeter.

I obtained my PhD in Political Science from the King’s College London, and hold a BA in Political Science and MAs in Management of Public Administrations and European Affairs. I am also member of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) and of the Political Science Association of the United Kingdom (PSA).

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. My current project is about decision-making in the European Council. I use, among other methods, quantitative text analysis to examine the agenda, policy positions, and narratives of both national leaders and the European Council as a whole.