PhD Candidate in 'Public Governance, Management and Policy' (39° cycle) at the University of Bologna - Department of Political and Social Science.
His doctoral research builds upon the theoretical-conceptual and empirical interrelation among participatory democracy, self-management, and federalism in selected federal or highly decentralized South American states, and on the implications of such interrelation on the institutional-constitutional order of each state. On a disciplinary level, his study integrates multiple theoretical and analytical perspectives, including democracy theories, comparative federalism and comparative constitutionalism.
Education and other research experiences
PhD Candidate in 'Public Governance, Management and Policy' - Department of Political and Social Sciences
Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of EURAC Research (Bolzano/Bozen) and member of the Research Group 'Institutional Innovation and Participatory Democracy'.
Second-level Master's degree in 'Governance and co-production of participatory processes, communities, and networks of proximity' (University of Bologna and Fondazione per l'Innovazione Urbana).
MA in 'International Relations', curriculum: 'International Affairs' (University of Bologna), dissertation title: "A pluralist approach to statehood: Cultural diversity in a post-sovereign context" (110/110 cum laude)
BA in 'Political, Social and International Science', curriculum: Sociology (University of Bologna), dissertation title: "Catalunya no es Espanya: origini e sviluppo dell'indipendentismo catalano".
Conference/workshop participation
VIII Encontro de Teoria Política e Pensamento Político Brasileiro, at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas of the Universidade de São Paulo.
Presentation title (Work Group: Pensamento político brasileiro e latino-americano; Session: Esquerdas e modernidades na America Latina): The Ramifications of Proudhon's Federalism in the Political Thought of Celso Furtado, Francisco H. Prestes Motta and Edgard Leuenroth: A Critical Review.
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Charles University, Prague.
Presentation title at the Paradigms of Democracy Workshop: Council Democracy an autogestão in Brazil: Reinterpreting the Roots of Democratic Innovations.
International Research Society for Public Management Conference 2025, Bologna.
Presentation title: Democratic Innovations, Local Governance, and Federalism: A Comparative Study on Participatory Budgeting in Three Italian Municipalities.
Conference 'Empowerment of Ethnic Minority Students in Vietnam', University of Insubria, Como (Italy).
Presentation title: From Selbstbestimmung to autonomy: an overview of South Tyrol’s special status within Italian regionalism.
Workshop ‘Navigating Change. The Resilience of Territorial Autonomy’, European Centre of Minority Issues - ECMI, Flensburg (Germany).
Presentation title: Assessing Change in New Caledonia and Corsica: A Dance of Complexity and New Prospects in 2024.
CIFE Federalism Workshop 'Can Federalism Answer the Big Questions of the 21stCentury?’, Centre international de formation européenne - CIFE, Nice (France).
Presentation title: Participatory Democracy and Federalism. Conceptual Reflections and Contextual analysis.
Other activities
10th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies on Democratic Backsliding organized by the University of Zurich and University of Fribourg.
Summer School Metodología de la Comparación Jurídica. Modelos de Justicia Constitucional, Supranacional, Electoral y Ambiental organized by the Center on Latin American Studies University of Bologna.
12th Annual Summer School on National Minorities in Border Regions organized by the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) and the Coppieters Foundation in Oñati (Basque Country, Spain).
