Ester Sigillò

Ester Sigillò is a postdoctoral researcher in an ERC funded project hosted by the University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). Her research interests focus on the EU's external action in the Mediterranean, civil society and democracy promotion, social movements in the Maghreb and Islamic activism. In the framework of her doctoral activities she served as visiting fellow at the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis and as a research fellow of the ERC project TARICA ‘Political and Socio-institutional Change in North Africa: Competition of Models and Diversity of Trajectories’. After her PhD she served as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.