Employment
2024
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Political and Social Science, University of Bologna
2023
Postdoctoral researcher
Leiden University, Institute for Security and Global Affairs
2022
Research assistant
Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
Professor in Economic Geography and Geopolitics
Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici, Pisa
2021
Research assistant
Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
Professor in Economic Geography and Geopolitics
Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici, Pisa
2020 - 2021
Contract professor in Geopolitical balances of postcolonial Africa and Asia
Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
2019 - 2020
Research associate
Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
2015-2019
Ph.D. in Geopolitics, University of Pisa, with honours
Participation to funded research projects
2024
Health Bordering: Managing Mobility During Pandemics
- PRIN funded national research project (P.I. Prof. E. Gargiulo, University of Bologna)
- Postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. E. Gargiulo (University of Bologna)
- Assessment of institutional and political decisions (case studies: Lebanon, Türkiye)
2023
SecurDomino. Seveso sites: assessment of integrated safety security hazards and risks and related domino effects
- EU-LIFE funded international research project (P.I. Prof. G. Landucci, University of Pisa)
- Postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. S. Kuipers (Leiden University)
- Assessment of European and national regulation on integrated safety-security legislation (case studies: Italy and the Netherlands)
2022
SecurDomino. Seveso sites: assessment of integrated safety security hazards and risks and related domino effects
- EU-LIFE funded international research project (P.I. Prof. G. Landucci, University of Pisa)
- Support to the research unit led by Prof. F. Tamburini (University of Pisa)
- Analysis of Islamist-related security threats in industrial sites
2020
Metodi integrati per la valutazione di impatto ambientale e sostenibilità delle attività industriali
- PRA founded national research project, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering and Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
- Support to the research unit of the Department of Political Science (University of Pisa)
- Assessment of Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist attacks at oil facilities in Algeria (2013) and Libya (2016)
Awards, fellowships, and grants
2018
Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MAECI) - grant
- Scambi giovanili 2017 - Iran
- Guest researcher, University of Teheran
2016
‘Mirella Galletti’ award for Kurdish studies theses
Conference presentations
2024
- American Association of Geography annual conference, Honolulu (forthcoming)
2023
- European Consortium for Political Research general conference, Charles University, Prague
- European Conference on African Studies, University of Cologne
- Tangier Statute Centenary Conference, Tangier
2022
- VI ASAI (Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia) Conference, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”
2019
- European International Studies Association pan-European conference on International Relations, University of Sofia
- III Italian conference of Public History (AIPH 2019), University of Caserta “Luigi Vanvitelli”
2018
- European International Studies Association pan-European conference on International Relations, Prague University of Economy and Business
- II Italian conference of Public History (AIPH 2018), University of Pisa
2017
- Colloque International “Les nouvelles orientations des relations internationales du Maroc”, University Mohamad V, Rabat
- International conference “The United Nations and Decolonization after World War II”, Tulane University, New Orleans
Invited speaker
2023
- Seminar “Donne e diritti. Uno sguardo sui femminismi islamici contemporanei”, University of Bologna
- Workshop “New International Histories of Decolonization and the UN”, European University Institute, Firenze
2022
- Seminar “2009, 2019, 2022: nuovi presidenti, vecchie rivolte. Verso una nuova rivoluzione iraniana?”, University of Pisa
Teaching Experience
Geopolitics and International Relations
2021 - 2022
Lecture, BA course Economic Geography,Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici, Pisa (main lecturer)
Lecture, MSc course Geopolitics, Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici, Pisa (main lecturer)
2020 - 2021
Orientalism and decolonization, Lecture, MSc courseGeopolitical balances of postcolonial Africa and Asia(24h), Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
2020
Iranian institutions, Seminar, MSc courseGeopolitical balances of postcolonial Africa and Asia(1h30), Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
Kurdistan (1920-2020), Seminar, MSc courseGeopolitical balances of postcolonial Africa and Asia(1h30), Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
Pastoral care
2023
Supervision of Bachelor theses (1 group of 12 students), BaSS, Leiden University
University service
2016 - 2018
Doctoral students’ representative, Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
