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I am a political scientist who specializes in European Union integration, Europeanization, differentiated policy implementation and comparative public administration, especially in the fiscal realm. My research interests also include comparative fiscal federalism, EU democracy and sovereignism, and corruption. Methodologically, I mainly work with thematic analysis, comparative case studies, causal process tracing, and case-oriented and set-theoretic research methodology. 

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I am the Principal Investigator of the three-year project (July 2025 - June 2028) “Towards a post-pandemic fiscal union? Differentiated member state governance of EU money: the National Recovery and Resilience Plans” (EUMONEY), financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and conducted at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the LMU Munich, Germany.

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From 2021 to 2025 I have worked as postdoctoral researcher of the Working Group on Public Administration in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany. From 2019 to 2023 I have also served as research manager for the Horizon 2020 funded project “EU Differentiation, Dominance, Democracy” in the research unit of the Department of Political Science at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy – the same university where I have also been adjunct professor (2021-2023). 

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I speak both Italian and German at a native level. I am also fluent in English – the language in which I have been studying, conducting research, and teaching since 2013.

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