Academic qualifications and previous positions
2020-2021: Junior Assistant professor in Public Law (IUS/09), Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome
2019-2020: Research Fellow in Constitutional Law (IUS/08), University of Bologna;
2018: National Scientific Qualification to serve as associate professor in Constitutional Law, SSD IUS/08 - SC 12/C1 (ASN 2016)
2014-2018: Research Fellow in Public Law (IUS/09), University of Bologna;
2015: guest researcher at CERA (Centre d'expertise et de recherche administrative), ENA, Strasbourg;
2014: PhD in Constitutional Law, University of Ferrara
Education & Training
2012: Admitted to the Bar;
2012: intern at the Research Office of the Italian Constitutional Court;
2010: Admitted to the PhD Program in Constitutional Law, first classified, University of Ferrara;
2008: Law Degree, University of Bologna, School of Law, final mark: 110/110 cum laude.
Honors, awards and scholarships
2015: “Marco Polo” Scholarship (merit-based scholarship for researchers’ mobility abroad), University of Bologna, for a research period at CERA, ENA, Strasbourg;
2014: special mention and publication recommended for the PhD thesis “The Government legislator. Emergency decrees between financial-economic crisis and European constraints”, Prize for the best doctoral thesis in public law area, 2013/2014 ed., promoted by Collana di Studi “Sovranità, Federalismo, Diritti” under the patronage of “Gruppo di Pisa”
2011-2013: Three years Ph.D. Scholarship, University of Ferrara.
Participation to editorial boards
2021-present: coordinator of the editorial board of EUblog.eu
2020-present: Member of Federalismi.it editorial board (A-class journal)
2019-present: Member of the editorial board of the regional observatory on Emilia-Romagna Region, of the law journal Le Regioni (A-class journal)
2018-present: member of the Monitore della giurisprudenza costituzionale (section of the law journal Forum di Quaderni costituzionali on the Constitutional Court case law);
2014-2017: Member of the editorial board of the “Constitutional Court Monitor” of the law journal Quaderni costituzionali (A-class journal), Il Mulino, Bologna.
Research projects
2023-present: CO-PI of PRIN 2022 "Parliament's fate beyond the Covid-19 emergency", directed by Umberto Ronga, sponsored by MUR;
2022-2023: Principal investigator of Alma Idea 2022 project “DEMOS (Democrazia E Mobilità Sostenibile). Esiste un modello democratico per il governo degli spazi urbani?”;
2021-present: member of the directive board of “Osservatorio sui processi di governo e sul federalismo”
2020–2021: member of the research group on “Il Presidente della Repubblica e la nascita dei governi, tra Carta costituzionale, storia istituzionale e prassi’, funded by Sapienza University of Rome;
2019-2024: Member of the research team of Prin 2017 “Where is Europe going? Paths and prospectives of the European federalizing process”, directed by A. Morrone (after B. Caravita di Toritto), sponsored by MUR;
2019-2020: Post-doc research project in Constitutional law (IUS/08) at the University of Bologna on “The crisis of the system of the sources of law”;
2018-2022: member of the project “ANTIDOTe (Affirmation, Négation, Transmission des IDentités localisées dans l’Organisation Territoriale) Perspectives de droit comparé France, Espagne, Italie”, directed by University of Pau;
2017-2020: member of the Alma Idea project funded by the University of Bologna, on “Governing numbers: economic indicators and the budget decision in the Constitutional State”, directed by C. Caruso;
2017-2018: member of the project “PLAY with EU”, Erasmus+ Programme - Jean Monnet Activities (Selection 2017 - Call for Proposals ref. EAC/A03/2016), directed by M. Balboni;
2016-2018: Post-doc research project in Public law (IUS/09) at the University of Bologna on “Financial crisis and guarantee of essential levels of health services”
2014-2016: Post-doc research project in Public law (IUS/09) at the University of Bologna, on “The financial constitution in the EU integration process”
2014-2016: Member of the research project on “The Public Security Administration and its responsibilities, between political-administrative and technical-operational management", directed by T.F. Giupponi, University of Bologna;
2015: visiting researcher at CERA (Centre d’expertise et de recherche administrative), ENA, Strasbourg (2015);
2014: PhD thesis on “The Government legislator. Emergency decrees between financial- economic crisis and European constraints”
2011-2013: Member of the research project “Urban safety and the role of local government” directed by T.f. Giupponi, University of Bologna, and sponsored by the National Association of Police Officers (ANFP).
2012: Member of the organizing committee of the Italian-Spanish Constitutional Law Seminar “Challenges of individual rights in XXI century”, held in Bologna in May 2012;
