Chiara Loschi

Tenure track researcher in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes. From 2020 to 2023 she worked as a research fellow on the ERC project “Processing Citizenship. Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe,” led by Prof. Annalisa Pelizza, at the Department of Philosophy and Communication.

She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna from 2018 to 2020, and as a postdoctoral researcher for the Tunis-based Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS from May 2017 to September 2018, and as postdoctoral researcher at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, for a project on migration policies in Tunisia, Libya and central mediterranean.

Her research interests include the examination of the role of technology in organizational dynamics in relation to digital infrastructures, national and transnational organizations, European integration with a focus on security, migration, data infrastructures, environment. She has also analyzed regime change and authoritarian upgrading in North Africa before and after 2011, with a focus on solid waste management.