I am a Research Associate/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. Previously, I worked as Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Exeter.

I am particularly interested in methodologies like quantitative text analysis, machine learning algorithms and item response approaches, and I use them to study policy-making processes, the responsiveness of technocratic bodies and of the EU institutions. My current project is about decision-making in the European Council. I use, among other methods, quantitative text analysis to examine the agenda, policy positions, and narratives of both national leaders and the European Council as a whole.

I obtained my PhD in Political Science from the King’s College London. I am also member of the European Political Science Society (EPSS), the Political Science Association of the United Kingdom (PSA), the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), and of the Quantitative and Computational Text Analysis Association (COMPTEXT).