I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, where I study the evolution and future of 'social Europe', broadly understood. My recent research is driven by a central question: how has the European Union quietly but profoundly expanded its role in social and labour market policy since the 1990s, and what does this mean for welfare states, workers and the politics of European integration more generally?

I hold a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. My doctoral project, The Quiet Emancipation of Social Europe, traced the long-term transformation of EU social and labour market policy from the post-Maastricht era to the 2020s, highlighting how incremental policy change, political entrepreneurship and learning have gradually reshaped the EU’s social dimension. During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School.

My work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics and the European Labour Law Journal. I write on EU and national-level labour regulation, minimum wages, social investment, subsidiarity and the post-pandemic reconfiguration of EU socio-economic governance. I am also co-editor of the forthcoming Research Handbook on the EU and Social Policy (Edward Elgar), which brings together cutting-edge research on the politics, policies and institutions of social Europe.

Alongside research, I am actively involved in teaching and academic service. I have taught seminars on European social policy and labour law across borders at the University of Amsterdam, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the University of Montenegro, and I regularly participate in international conferences and peer review for leading journals in the field of EU policy and politics.

More broadly, my work aims to contribute to scholarly and public debates on how the European Union can support national welfare states and promote social cohesion in an era of economic uncertainty, political contestation and institutional change.