Current PhD Candidates

William John Atkinson

Provisional Thesis Title: Emotions and Elections: the effects of anger and anxiety on voter behaviour. (Cycle 39)


Federico Bonomi

Provisional Thesis Title: Tying hands or sharing risks? Explaining the evolution of the EU fiscal governance from the financial crisis to the pandemic. (Cycle 38)


Alessandro Cangiano

Provisional Thesis Title:Decolonizing Climate Justice: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Carbon Offsetting in the Global South (Cycle 41)


Maximilian Brüning

Provisional Thesis Title: European cultural (heritage) policy and its approach to sustainable development. (Cycle 37)


Noemi Ciarniello

Provisional Thesis Title: Feminism, neoliberalism and neoconservatism, reurgences of Italian Destra Sociale. (Cycle 36)


Adam Courtley

Provisional Thesis Title: Ambition and Expression: Examining Rhetorical Shifts in UK Parliamentary Discourse (2015-2019). (Cycle 37)


Elise Daniaud Oudeh

Provisional Thesis Title: Twittering Syria in Russian Media: an approach to Russian political strategies at national and international level (2015-2021). (Cycle 37)


Mark Andreas Felix

Provisional Thesis Title: Climate Change and Structural Injustice: How These Links Shape Effects and Approaches. (Cycle 39)


Carmelo Fronte

Provisional Thesis Title: The places of the “invisibles”: peripherialization as a source of abstentionism and propensity to vote to demarcationist parties in European Parliament elections (2004-2024). (Cycle 40)


Mattia Gatti

Provisional Thesis Title: Filling The Political SupplyGap? Western European Radical Left PartiesTargeting the Left-Authoritarians’ Quadrant. (Cycle 38)


Gemma Gresele

Provisional Thesis Title: Equity or Disparity? Fiscal Decentralization’s Role in Healthcare Performance”.(Cycle 41)


Alberto Manuel Hers Martinez

Provisional Thesis Title: Collective self-determination in times of depoliticization: an exploration of the site of democratic politics. (Cycle 36)


Nils Fabian Müller

Provisional Thesis Title: Failing forward (in)formally? Investigating the Resurgence of ‘Deals’ and Informalisation Tendencies within European External Migration Governance. (Cycle 41)


Provisional Thesis Title: A New Religious Conflict in Germany? Impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Russian Orthodox Church. (Cycle 41)

Provisional Thesis Title: The Influence of EU Accession on Civil Society Organizations’ Ability to Fight Corruption in the Western Balkans. (Cycle 39)

Provisional Thesis Title: Countering Chinese Economic Coercion: analyzing the Factors underlying its Success, and Countermeasure Strategies for EU/EEA Target States, 2001-2021. (Cycle 39)

Bosco Lebrun

Provisional Thesis Title: Understanding Millenials’ Views on a World Parliament from the European Experience. (Cycle 38)


Ilaria Lorusso

Provisional Thesis Title: Making sense of EU’s approach to Gender Mainstreaming in Migration Policy. (Cycle 39)


Samuele Lucidi

Provisional Thesis Title: From Conflict to Cooperation? A Comparison Between Movement-Parties in Italy, France and Spain. (Cycle 40)


Costanza Marcellino

Provisional Thesis Title: The role of political efficacy in shaping European identity: A comparison of the national and European level. (Cycle 37)


Giulia Ongari

Provisional thesis title: EU-GCC: Opportunities and Challenges for Political Cooperation.(Cycle 41)


Anna Pereti

Provisional Thesis Title: Party Politics, Restrictive Policies and Local Responsibilities: Unveiling the Dynamics of Integration Governance in Western European Cities. (Cycle 40)


Michele Pertosa

Provisional Thesis Title: Shifting Global Power Dynamics: The Role of US Foreign Policy in European Defence Cooperation. (Cycle 40)


Enrico Petrocelli 

Provisional Thesis Title: Reconciling strategic competition and cooperative security: the normative power of regional security architectures in a multipolar international system. (Cycle 37)


Giulia Petroni

Provisional Research Title: Securitization of Climate Migration vs. Human Rights Protection: The Need for a New Legal and Policy Framework. (Cycle 41)


Carolina Polito

Provisional Thesis Title: The Race for AI Dominance: Effects on African Cybersecurity. (Cycle 37)


Lorenzo Santini

Provisional Thesis Title: Gendering European Parliament’s Diplomacy: Rules, Discourses and Practices in Global Context. (Cycle 38)


Giuseppenrico Tempesta

Provisional Thesis Title: Asymmetric Affective Polarization: How the Rise of the Radical Right Shapes Affective Polarization. (Cycle 41)


Nicolás Sebastián Soto Troncoso

Provisional Thesis Title: Assessing the Determinants of Public Transparency and its Impact on Corruption at the Sub-national Level. (Cycle 40)


Ivan Zaccagnini

Provisional Thesis Title:Industrial Policy in the Age of Complexity: Emerging Technologies and the International Competition in Commercial and Defence Markets. (Cycle 38)


Katharina Weber

Provisional Thesis Title: Contesting National Sovereignty? Transnational civil society activism and EU external action against deforestation. (Cycle 39)