06/2017 – present

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Comparative Research on Democracies, FIW, University of Bonn (Germany)
Research on domestic observers in the context of hybrid regimes, field research in Georgia and Armenia.

11/2011

Election Expert – Venice Commission (Council of Europe), London (UK).

07/2017 and
09-10/2017

Visiting Researcher – Georgian Foundation for Strategy and International Studies, Tbilisi (Georgia)

Field research, conduct semi-structured interviews, archival research.

10/2016 - 10/2017

Researcher Engineering – Making Identity Count Project, Rome (Italy)

03/2017 – 04/2017

International Election Observer – OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Armenia.

07/2016 - 11/2016

Research Fellow – CASCADE Project (European Commission FP7), Paris – Tbilisi – Yerevan (multiple locations).

02/2013 – 12/2016

Ph.D. in International Relations and Political History, Double Degree at Sciences Po Paris (France) and IMT School for Advanced Studies (Italy)

Thesis Title: The International Dimensions of Electoral Frauds and Electoral Malpractices. The South Caucasus. (Thesis discussed on 19^th December 2016)

Thesis Directors: Professor Bertrand Badie – bertrand.badie@sciencespo.fr and professor Leonardo Morlino – morlino@luiss.it

09/2015 – 12/2015

Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Department of Political Science, New York (U.S.A.).

04/2015 – 05/2015

Visiting Researcher at Ivane Javakhishvili University, Department of Sociology and Political Sciences, Tbilisi (Georgia)

06/2014 – 07/2014

Ph.D. Summer School “Between Continuity and Change: the EU, the ENP and the Southern and Eastern Neighborhood”, College of Europe, Natolin (Poland).

09/2008 – 04/2011

MA in International Relations and European Studies (110/110 cum laude), Università degli Studi, Florence (Italy).