I am an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania, Italy, where I hold the Jean Monnet Chair EuDARe in European Politics. I am also an Affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.

Before joining the University of Catania, I have been working as a Senior Researcher at the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA - previously European Asylum Support Office), where I was responsible for the Agency’s Research programme on the push and pull factors of asylum-related migration. Previously I have been a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer at Institute for European Studies of the University of Malta.

My research focuses mainly on the comparative analysis of institutions and public policies. I have a special interest in the interaction among migration dynamics, politics, and policy, in agenda-setting processes, and in the European Union. I am a founding co-director of the Italian Agendas Project and of the EU Agendas Project.

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