About Me

I am a Fellow in European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s European Institute, where I teach the courses ‘Democracy, Ideology and the European State’, ‘The Future: Political Responses to a Challenge’, and ‘European Policy-Making and International Cooperation’.

Prior to joining LSE, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter on the Horizon2020 project ‘Integrating Diversity in the European Union.’ As a Postdoc at Exeter, I worked alongside Prof Richard Bellamy (UCL) and Dr Sandra Kröger (Exeter) on the normative foundations of differentiated integration in the European Union.

I completed my PhD at the LSE European Institute. In my thesis, I study how far right parties integrate Europe in their ideology. Carrying out an in-depth interpretive analysis of party documents produced between 1978 and 2017 by the Italian Social Movement/Alleanza Nazionale and the French Front National, I argue that far right parties repurpose key elements of their ideology to integrate Europe in their worldview.

My research has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Swiss Political Science Review, Comparative European Politics, and East European Politics and Societies. I have authored several book chapters on far right politics in France and co-authored a book on ‘Flexible Europe: Differentiated integration, Fairness and Democracy’ (Bristol University Press, 2022).

In addition to my research, I have developed extensive teaching experience. In 2020 and 2021, I taught the Master’s course ‘Policy-Making in the European Union’ at the LSE European Institute and delivered two lectures for the European Institute’s Professional Skills seminar. In 2016-2017 and 2018-2019, I taught the full-year undergraduate courses ‘Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union’ and ‘Politics and Institutions in Europe’ in the LSE Government Department. In 2019, I taught a course on European politics to exchange students from UC Davies. In 2018 and 2019, I also taught the in the three-week LSE Summer School course ‘What Kind of Europe? Crisis, Reform and the International Role of the European Union’.

In 2016-2017, I assisted in the design, management and delivery of the European Institute’s Master’s level professional skills course ‘Engaging with Europe.’

In 2017-2018, I designed and taught ‘Europe: Defining an idea’, a first year undergraduate course in Sciences Po Paris’s European campus in Dijon.

I am a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

In 2017, I successfully co-organised the Graduate Conference Populism: Left, Right and Centre.

Before starting my PhD, I completed a Dual Master’s Degree in European Studies at Sciences Po Paris and the LSE and worked as an Executive Officer at the LSE European Institute. Prior to that, I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Politics from Sciences Po Paris, European Campus of Dijon.

When I’m not doing research, I am usually on X (formerly Twitter) or playing around with Aerial Straps.