About Me

I am a Lecturer in Politics in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. Since 2023, I also co-edit the journal Political Research Exchange.

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, Nations and Nationalism, 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).

My latest book ‘Europe as ideological resource: European integration and far-right legitimation’(Oxford University Press) has recently come out.

Prior to joining Cardiff University, I was Fellow in European Politics at the London School of Economics and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter.

At the London School of Economics, I convened the European Institute’s Master’s levels courses ‘Democracy, Ideology and the European State’, and ‘The Future: Political Responses to a Challenge’. I also taught the MSc courses ‘European Policy-Making and International Cooperation’, ‘Policy-Making in the European Union’, and Professional Skills. In 2016-2017 and 2018-2019, I taught the 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’.

At the University of Exeter, I worked alongside Prof Richard Bellamy (UCL) and Dr Sandra Kröger (Exeter) on the Horizon2020 project ‘Integrating Diversity in the European Union.’

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.

I completed my PhD at the LSE European Institute. In my thesis, I studied how far right parties integrated 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 argued that far right parties repurposed key elements of their ideology to integrate Europe in their worldview.

Before starting my PhD, I completed a Dual Master’s Degree in European Studies at Sciences Po Paris and the LSE. 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.