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I am a political scientist specialising in European Union integration, Europeanisation, regulation, comparative public policy and comparative public administration, with a particular focus on the fiscal realm. My research interests also include comparative fiscal federalism, EU democracy and sovereignism, and corruption. Methodologically, I primarily work with thematic analysis, (comparative) case studies, causal process tracing, and case-oriented and set-theoretic research methodology. 

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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher and Habilitation Candidate in Political Science at LMU Munich, Germany. I am also 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)", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and based at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich, where I also teach. In May and June 2026, I was also a Visiting Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy. From September to December 2026, I will be a Visiting Research Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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From 2021 to 2025 I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in 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 also served as Research Manager for the Horizon 2020-funded project “EU Differentiation, Dominance, Democracy” in the Department of Political Science at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. I obtained my PhD in Political Science from Luiss in 2020 and was an Adjunct Professor there from 2021 to 2023. 

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I speak and write Italian and German at a native level and am also fluent in English, the language in which I have studied, conducted research, and taught since 2013.​​​​​