Ciao!

I am an Associate Professor in European Political Economy and Politics at the University of Geneva (Global Studies Institute and SPERI), a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of the EUI and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. I participate in the ERC SOLID Project where I work with Waltraud Schelkle, Maurizio Ferrera, Hanspeter Kriesi and many other brilliant co-authors. Previously I was a member of the great PETGOV group at the University of Amsterdam.

As a Europeanist and a political economist, I work on EU integration, polity formation, crisis politics and solidarity and austerity (for my publications, see here on Google Scholar and here on ResearchGate).

With my wonderful co-authors, we wrote 2 books:

• With Hanspeter Kriesi, Ioana-Elena Oana and Alexandru D. Moise, Pandemic Polity-Building: How Covid-19 Shaped the European Union, Oxford University Press, June 2025.
• With Ioana-Elena Oana and Alexandru D. Moise: Demand for EU Polity Building in the Shadow of the Russian Threat, Cambridge University Press, March 2025.

Previously, I was a Swiss Government Excellence Scholar at the University of Geneva, working with Thomas Sattler. I’m a former Max Weber Fellow at the SPS department of the EUI, where I was mentored by Dorothee Bohle. I received my PhD from the Central European University (CEU) summa cum laude with no revisions under the (heroic) supervision of Achim Kemmerling. My PhD was awarded the best doctoral dissertation prize for my work on the social sources of austerity in the European Union. At CEU, I chaired the Political Economy Research Group (PERG).

I have held visiting fellowships at Cornell University, the London School of Economics and the EUI and have worked at the European Central Bank, the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and the OSCE. I hold degrees from the Sorbonne (BA), Sciences Po Paris (MRes) and the College of Europe (MA).