She is a quantitative political science scholar with a large experience in working with ecological and geographical data. Her substantive research interests are in comparative politics, electoral and political behavior, political participation, electoral geography and quantitative methods. She holds a PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (2011). She has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and she has worked at Science-Po Paris and Université Lille 2. Her articles have been published in Quality & Quantity, Geojournal, Italian Political Science Review, French Politics and other journals.