 is assistant professor in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University. He received his doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics (2015-16), a Berggruen-Weatherhead Research Fellow at the Global Populism research cluster of the Weatherhead Center, Harvard University (2018-19) and a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at SAIS Johns Hopkins (2019). In the 2020-21 academic year he is a Jean Monnet fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the EUI. He is research associate of the Martens Centre and associate fellow of the Europe Programme of Chatham House. His research interests are on the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, with a particular interest in the sources and impact of populism on world politics and foreign policy.