About

I am an SNSF Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne. I studied at the Universities of Rome “Sapienza” (BA, MSc), Leiden (MA), Oxford and Siena (PhD). After my doctoral studies, I held a "Jean Monnet" Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies and an “Ambizione” Fellowship at the University of Lucerne. My academic interests center on the interplay between voters, political parties and leaders in democratic elections. My current research project, funded by an “Eccellenza” Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2020-2024), focuses on affective polarization and its electoral consequences, with a particular emphasis on negative voting in comparative and longitudinal perspective. I currently serve in the steering committees of the Consortium of National Election Studies (CNES), and the ECPR Research Network on Voting Advice Applications (VAAs).

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democracy, Elections, Political Leadership, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Psychology, Candidate, Catch-all, Internet, Regression, Television, Communication, Electoral Behaviour, Public Opinion, Southern Europe, Survey Experiments, Voting Behaviour, Empirical

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Voting Advice Applications
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Internet and Politics
• Political Parties
• Southern European Politics
• Affective Polarization