My PhD research consists in a mixed methods analysis of the changing geographies of European integration and European production in the aftermath of COVID-19, focusing on two sets of actors: firms and their location strategies and states and their industrial policies.

Before starting my PhD, I spent four years conducting policy-oriented research in Euro-Mediterranean affairs, both as a junior researcher in a small think tank (EMEA) and as assistant scientific coordinator of a large EU-funded research network (EMNES). I also have experience in development cooperation, both as staff of a small consulting firm (DevStat) and as member of EU-funded technical assistance teams, with time spent in Albania, Moldova and to a minor extent Ukraine. 

I speak fluent Italian, French, English, Spanish and Dutch. I also speak some Russian, which I learned to prepare for a four-month overland journey across Eurasia, travelling eastward aboard the Trans-Siberian and westward along the Silk Road. For more info about peoples and places met on the way, check out my storytelling project on IG (@ragingpeacock).