Profile
I am a PhD candidate in political science at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I work on European Union governance and socio-economic reform processes in EU Member States. I am in the final year of my PhD, finishing in June 2027.
My research is focused on understanding to what extent different configurations of domestic politics affect the Europeanization of social policy. I have conducted in-depth process tracing of labour market and pension reforms in Italy and Spain. I have focused on the “domestic effects” of the European Semester, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, the newly reformed SGP and the National Medium-term Fiscal-structural Plans.
Research interests
- EU governance
- Comparative political economy
- Social policy
- Case study research
PhD research project
My work is part of the research project Towards a resilient European Union? Post-pandemic economic governance amidst politicisation (PEGAP), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). My supervisors are prof. Markus Haverland (PEGAP’s principal investigator), dr. Asya Zhelyazkova, and dr. Pieter Tuytens.