ABOUT ME
Professional profile
Political philosopher working in democratic theory.
Research areas
Political theory, legal theory, democratic theory, history of political thought, metaethics.
Main interests
Justifications of democracy, democratic legitimacy and obligation, political equality, parties and partisanship, the ethics of voting.
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT
Description
Position: Post-doctoral Researcher
Duration: October 2021 - September 2024
Institution: Goethe University - Frankfurt a.M.
Project
Title: ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty
Type: Research Cluster
Research focus
Parties’ and representatives’ distinctive trustworthiness in the adversarial context of electoral democracy.
MOST RECENT POSITION
Description
Position: Principal Investigator
Duration: October 2019 - September 2021
Institution: Sciences Po Paris - Political Science Research Centre (CEVIPOF)
Project
Title: VoiCED: Voting Citizens and the Ethics of Democracy
Type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA)
Individual Fellowship funded by the Horizon
2020 programme of the European Commission
Research focus
Citizens' duties as democratic lawgivers: By explicitly acknowledging the representative nature of contemporary democracies, the project looked at citizens’ duties qua voters in correlation with political parties’ and representatives’ obligations as part of the same process.