Role
Associate Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Center of the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), Co-Head of the Syria Desk at Human Security Solutions
Bio
He earned a PhD in Transnational Governance with honors, a joint degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, with a research project on the trajectories of armed groups in Syria after 2011. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Center of ISPI and Co-Head of the Syria Desk at Human Security Solutions, a consultancy firm that promotes sustainable peace in post-conflict contexts.
His research focuses on the intersection of conflict and peace, political violence , religious movements, and contentious politics in the MENA/SWANA region, with a particular focus on Syria. He has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Turkey, and Jordan. He also studies armed groups and religious movements, and is currently developing his doctoral project into a book manuscript.