Currently, I am a Researcher at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna and 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 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bologna (2025) and at Bocconi University (2024-2025), 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 (2016 and 2018), and I attended the Seminar of Parliamentary Studies and Research “Silvano Tosi” (2019). I held visiting positions at the School of Law of Queen’s University 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 (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.
- Constitutional Law and Religion: religious pluralism; gender and religion; customary laws; personal laws; mixed legal systems.
- Comparative Research Methodologies: decolonial comparative law; empirical legal studies.
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.