Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Opinione pubblica ed elezioni
    Master degree Governo, Amministrazione e Politica — 48 hours, 6 ECTS, taught in Italian.
    Also offered on the LM26GPACP master degree.
    Where political opinions come from and how they turn into votes: identities and cleavages, spatial and valence competition, issue yield, personalisation, and what all this means for representation. Students present published research and analyse original survey data.

  • Methods of Social Research
    Bachelor degree Politics: Philosophy and Economics — channels A and B, 64 hours, 8 ECTS, co-taught with Antonio Zinilli.
    A full pass through the research cycle, from question to write-up. The first half covers quantitative design and data analysis in Stata; the second half covers qualitative design, interviews, focus groups, and observation.

  • Grand Challenge (Module II)
    Bachelor degree Politics: Philosophy and Economics — 24 hours, 2 ECTS.
    The applied companion to Methods of Social Research. Students run a small mixed-methods project on AI and academia: they write the research question, build the survey and the interview guide, collect their own data, and deliver a group research dossier.

  • Quantitative Methods Masterclass
    PhD programme in Politics — second year, fall semester, 12 hours, 3 ECTS.
    An operational masterclass in quantitative methods for political science and political sociology: doctoral students apply statistical tools directly to their own research projects and discuss the methodological choices behind them.

Academic Year 2025/2026

Academic Year 2024/2025

Supervision

  • Thesis supervisor at Luiss: 9 BA theses in Politics: Philosophy and Economics (in English) and 1 MA thesis in Governo, Amministrazione e Politica.
  • Thesis co-supervisor (correlatore): 4 theses.
  • PhD examination committees, Luiss Guido Carli: Costanza Marcellino (February 2026) and Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo (July 2025).

I welcome thesis proposals in public opinion, electoral behaviour, European and climate politics.

Orientation and outreach teaching

  • July 2026 — Lectures (4 hours) at the Luiss Summer School Orientation 4 for prospective students.
  • February 2026 — What is political science? (3 hours), mini-course for a visiting delegation of Chinese students, Luiss International Orientation.
  • August 2025 — Cos’è la scienza politica?, Luiss Orientation 3 Summer School for prospective students.

Academic Year 2023/2024

Academic Year 2022/2023

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Adjunct Professor of Data analysis
    Bachelor degree IPLE
    Students’ evaluation

  • Teaching Assistant Comparative Politics
    Master degree: EPS.
  • Teaching Assistant Sistemi Politici e Amministrativi
    Bachelor degree MAPS.

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Adjunct Professor of Data analysis
    Bachelor degree IPLE
    Students’ evaluation

  • Teaching Assistant Sistemi Politici e Amministrativi
    Bachelor degree MAPS.

Academic Year 2019/2020