PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2021-2022 Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna
2020-2021 Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna
2019 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
Since 2023. Principal Investigator of the research & cooperation project “Go Green: A Trans-Mediterranean Approach to Climate Change”, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Economics - University of Bologna (funded by the University of Bologna), in collaboration with the International University of Rabat. End of project: 31 Dec 2024.
PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS
2019-2023 Principal Investigator of the research project “Security for whom? Reshaping notions of state legitimacy for a new social contract: the role of political parties in post-2011 Tunisia and Morocco” funded by the Garda Henkel Stiftung.
2019-2022 Research partner of the international research project "Crisis and Regional Change Processes in North Africa”, funded by Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (Spain), Spanish State Research Agency and European Regional Development Fund, and coordinated by M. Hernando de Larramendi and B. Azaola Piazza (University Castilla La Mancha, Toledo).
2018-2019 Principal Investigator of the research project "Local governance and marginalized communities: assessing decentralization in Tunisia. The case of Tataouine". Awarded a TRE-POMEPS (Travel Research Engagement - Project on Middle East Political Science) Grant 2019, by the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University (Washington, DC).
2016-2017 Research Assistant of the research project "STREETPOL - Participatory Challenges from Tunisia to Oman" coordinated by R. Hanau Santini under the Grant Program SIR, Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale
2015-2017 Research Assistant of the research project "EU-Spring Project: Democracy and Citizenship Rights in North Africa after the Arab Awakening: Challenges to US and EU Foreign Policy" coordinated by R. Hanau Santini, Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale
EDUCATION
2018 Ph.D in International Studies, University of Naples L'Orientale. Dissertation: “The Changing Nature and Role of Political Parties in post-2011 Tunisia and Morocco”. Supervisor: R. Hanau Santini. Referees: Prof. R. Hinnebusch (St Andrews University) and F. Cavatorta (Université Laval). Jury members: D. Pioppi (University of Naples L’Orientale), L. Storm (University of Exeter) and A. Gana (CNRS).
2016 Modern Standard Arabic (Level IV), Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes, Tunis
2013 MA in International Relations (110/110 cum laude), University of Naples L'Orientale
2011 Modern Standard Arabic (Level II), Arabic Teaching Institute for Non-Arabic Speakers, Damascus
2010 BA in Political Sciences (110/110 cum laude), University of Naples L'Orientale.
VISITING
2021 – 2022 Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Studies, Université Internationale de Rabat (Morocco)
2018 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS), University of St Andrews, Scotland (UK)
2017 Visiting Fellow, Centre Jacques Berque pour le développement des sciences humaines et sociales au Maroc, Rabat
GRANTS & AWARDS
2019 Gerda Henkel Stiftung Fellowships as Principal Investigator for the Research Project "Security for whom? Reshaping notions of state legitimacy for a new social contract: the role of political parties in post-2011 Tunisia and Morocco", under the Funding Scheme "Security, Society and the State" (74.325 Euro)
2019 TRE-POMEPS Grant (TRE-POMEPS Grant 2019 (Travel Research Engagement - Project on Middle East Political Science), awarded by Insitute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University (Washington, DC) for the research project: "Local governance and marginalised communities: assessing decentralisation in Tunisia. The case of Tataouine". (US$3,000)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Referee
Publishing houses: Edinburgh University Press
Peer-reviewed journals: Politics and Religion (Cambridge University Press), Middle East Law and Governance (Brill), Evaluation and Program Planning (Elsevier), Political Geography (Elsevier), Representation (Taylor & Francis), Political Research Exchange (Taylor & Francis), Cartografie Sociali (Mimesis), Contemporary Arab Affairs (Brill), Revista Internacional de Estudios Mediterráneos (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (Taylor & Francis), CIDOB d'Afers internacionals (CIDOB)
