I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where I am part of the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS). My work is part of the European Commission’s Horizon project DEMETRA ("Democratic Governance, Environmental and Climate Challenges, and Societal Transformation: Deliberation, Inclusiveness, and Citizen Empowerment for Sustainable Food Systems").
I earned my PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Trento in 2020, with a network-analytic study on the changing patterns of inter-organizational collaboration within the Basque environmental field in the aftermath of violent conflict. From 2021 to 2024, I held a three-year postdoctoral position at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where I continue to collaborate on the ERC Advanced Grant project PATCHWORK ("A network science approach to social cohesion in European societies"), the Volkswagen Foundation’s INCLUSIVITY project ("Inclusivity norms to counter polarization in European societies"), and the supervision of a PhD project. I have led the data collection and analysis for the INCLUSIVITY project, which uses a mixed-methods approach—including surveys, lab experiments, social network analysis, and school-based interventions—to explore how inclusivity norms can shift attitudes and behaviors, helping reduce political polarization. Additionally, I have participated as a research assistant in international research projects at the University of Geneva and the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) and have been a visiting researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and Utrecht University.
My primary research interests lie in political sociology, with a focus on topics such as political polarization, collective action, protest, social movements, and socioecological transition. Methodologically, I specialize in social network analysis and mixed-methods approaches, combining statistical analyses of network patterns with qualitative evidence gathered through interviews and text analyses. My research has been published in international social science journals such as Mobilization, VOLUNTAS, Empiria, and Turkish Studies.
