Mattia Bottino

Mattia Bottino is a PhD Candidate in Public Governance, Management and Policy at the University of Bologna (Department of Political and Social Sciences). He also partakes in the INCT Participa, as a member of the Núcleo de Democracia e Ação Coletiva at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (NDAC/CEBRAP).

He is currently a PhD Visiting Fellow at the European Centre for Research on Federalism at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany.

He held visiting positions at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Mondes Américains) in Paris, France (February-May 2026) and at the Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (Universade de São Paulo and CEBRAP) in São Paulo, Brazil (August-December 2025).

From 2022 to 2025, he worked as Researcher at the Eurac Research Institute for Comparative Federalism, studying participatory budgeting in Italy, local-level democratic innovations in the Alpine region, and territorial autonomy in Italy and France, with a special focus on Corsica.