Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Baffi Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation of Bocconi University, as well as a Teaching Assistant of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna. I am also an Affiliated Researcher of the Research Group on Government and Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp. Previously, I was a Research Assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute (2024), a Junior Researcher at the EURAC Institute for Comparative Federalism (2023) and a Trainee at the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2020).
I hold a joint PhD in Legal Studies awarded by the University of Bologna and the University of Antwerp (2023) and a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Political Science and International Relations by the University of Bologna (2018), and I attended the Seminar of Parliamentary Studies and Research “Silvano Tosi” (2019). I held visiting positions at the School of Law of the Queen’s University of Belfast (2018), the Department of Law of the European University Institute (2021-2022), the EURAC Institute of Comparative Federalism (2022), and the Oxford Internet Institute (incoming Hilary Term 2025).
My research interests develop along three (often overlapping) strands:
- Minority rights and diversity governance: constitutional design for divided societies; territorial and non-territorial autonomy; asymmetric federalism; federalism and legal pluralism.
- AI and international humanitarian law: dual-use technologies and fundamental rights; autonomous weapons systems and the law of armed conflict; AI and peacebuilding; digital colonialism.
- Comparative research methodologies: decolonial comparative law; empirical legal studies.
In my doctoral thesis, I studied the legal factors explaining a low, medium, or high degree of constitutional asymmetries in divided multi-tiered systems through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) on 16 case studies. In my postdoc project, “Decision-Making in the Age of Emergencies,” I explore the use of advanced technologies in emergencies (i.e., AI and drones), specifically during armed conflicts and humanitarian missions.
I am passionate about photography, music, and theatre, and I would love to travel more than I actually can. I speak English and French fluently, and I will soon start learning Serbian-Croatian.