Lorenzo Cicchi (Ph.D. IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, 2013) is research associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, where he coordinates the activities of the European Governance and Politics Programme (EGGP). He has been the coordinator of EGPP since its foundation in 2018. In addition to supporting the directorship in the daily management of the programme, he has been involved in a number of projects for both grant application and implementation and production of research outputs. He is also adjunct professor at California State University in Florence and teaching assistant at the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa. Previously he was coordinator of the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR) and post-doctoral researcher at Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Rome. His current project aims at studying the trends of party positioning and political dimensions in Europe between 2009 and 2019 using data from Voting Advice Applications (VAAs). In addition to his research agenda, he has an extensive experience in preparation of calls for funding and project management of national and international projects, most recently Horizon 2020-funded DiCE (consortium led by the EUI, 2020-2023) and InDivEU (consortium led by EUI, 2019-22); Spaceu2019 and euandi2019 (EUI and University of Luzern, 2018-ongoing); PartAdapt (University of Pisa, 2018-19); PAIRDEM(University of Oslo, 2016-17).
Research Interests
European Union politics and institutions, political parties, elections and voting behaviour, voting advice applications
Datasets
- Genschel, Philipp, Anton Hemerijck, Stephan Shakespeare, Jonathan van Parys, Lorenzo Cicchi & Mohamed Nasr (2020). “EUI-YouGov Survey on Solidarity in Europe”, EUI Research Data, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Retrieved from Cadmus, European University Institute Research Repository, at: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/67584
- Reiljan, Andres, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, Lorenzo Cicchi, Diego Garzia & Alexander H. Trechsel (2020). “EU Profiler/euandi trend file (2009-2019)”, EUI Research Data, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Retrieved from Cadmus, European University Institute Research Repository, at: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/65944
- Trechsel, Alexander H., Diego Garzia & Lorenzo Cicchi (2019). “euandi 2019 (Experteninterviews)”, GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA7563 Datenfile Version 1.0.0 (2019), doi:10.4232/1.13407, available at https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7563
- Trechsel, Alexander H., Diego Garzia & Lorenzo Cicchi (2019). “euandi (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsbefragung) – User Profiles in the 2019 European Elections”, GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA7565 Datenfile Version 1.0.0 (2019), doi:10.4232/1.13408, available at https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7565