People

Discover the people behind the Chair Challenges to Democracy and Representation in the EU (EuDARe).

Marcello Carammia

Chair

Marcello Carammia is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Catania. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of institutions and public policies, with special interest in the interaction between migration dynamics, politics, and policy. Between 2015 and 2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO – the EU Asylum Agency), responsible for the Agency’s research programme on the push and pull factors of asylum-related migration. Previously he was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer (2011–2015) in comparative European politics at the University of Malta. His articles have appeared in journals such as European Union Politics, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Policy Studies Journal, and South European Society and Politics. Visit his personal page.

Iole Fontana

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Experienced researcher and consultant. Skilled in Political Science, Mediterranean and European Politics, Project Management, and International Relations. Former intern at the European External Action Service in Tunisia and visiting researcher at the University of Delaware, the London School of Economics, and the University Hassan II in Casablanca. She works on migration, climate change, migration policies, Euro-Mediterranean relations, and asylum. Scientific Coordinator of the project DEPMI – Dimensione Esterna della Politica di Migrazione Italiana.

Viviana Condorelli

Tutor, Jean Monnet Chair

PhD student in Complex Systems for Physical, Socio-economic and Life Sciences at the University of Catania (XXXVIII Cycle). Her research interests, on which she has several publications, include Artificial Intelligence, Human–AI interaction, risk communication, and collective memory. MA graduate in Sociology of Networks, Information and Innovation. She works in social, institutional, and digital communication, and is the founder of the tech-and-society newsletter “The Ind(i)ependent Researcher”. She is an experienced university tutor.

Giona Panarello

Research Assistant

Research Assistant in Political Science and MA Double Degree student in European Studies (EUF, Germany) and Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations (UNICT, Italy). His research interests focus on populism and political ideologies, with particular attention to the definition and evolution of the left–right divide. He contributes to projects exploring populist attitudes in Europe and the MENA region, and to the development of a dataset on Members of the European Parliament.