MARTINI SERGIO

I am a researcher (RTD-A) in political science at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena, where I was also a post-doctoral fellow from November 2018 to September 2023. Previously, I had been a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and I had visited the European University Institute and the GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (Mannheim). I have a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2017). My research interests include the study of public opinion and political behaviour in comparative perspective, and, in particular, social and political trust, how citizens view and evaluate the functioning of democracy and its institutions, populism, the problem of political representation and methodology for the social sciences. I have participated in numerous national and European research projects. I have taught or assisted teaching courses covering political parties, democratic systems in Europe, and experimental methods. I have published articles in various international journals, including: Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Party Politics, Political Psychology, West European Politics. I have co-authored the monograph "Citizens and Democracy in Europe" (with Mario Quaranta) and edited the book "La Classe Politica Italiana" with (Pierangelo Isernia and Luca Verzichelli). I am currently part of the research team coordinating the REDIRECT project funded by Horizon Europe.