Research Fellow in Political Science at the Department of Communication and Social Research of “Sapienza” University of Rome and a member of the Centro per la Riforma dello Stato. He was Visiting Fellow at University Paris-Est Créteil. He published ‘Le parole dell’Eliseo’ (Roma, 2012) and ‘Il Front National: da Jean-Marie a Marine Le Pen’ (Soveria Mannelli, 2015). ‘La destra nazional-populista in Francia’. He is also a member of SISP (Italian Society of Political Science).