Federico is an employee at the Department of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a scholar with a strong background in international relations and political science. He studied Political Science and International Relations at Sapienza University of Rome and pursued studies in Conflict Management at Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin.

Before transitioning to academia, Federico built a career in peacebuilding and foreign policy consulting, focusing on mediation and negotiation processes, particularly in Eastern Europe. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, where he focused on the role of autocratic states within the normative framework of the liberal international order. His work explores the intersection of autocracy, governance, liberal values, and international diplomacy, complemented by a deep interest in computational methods and quantitative research.

Research interests:

• Autocracies
• Quantitative methods
• Governance and International Organizations
• Liberal international order
• International political theory

Papers

• Social Learning, Semantic Theory and Non-Deterministic Norm-Setting: the Case of the Armed Intervention Debate of the 2022 Ukraine Invasion (forthcoming in Europe Asia Studies)
• Gestione delle risorse idriche in Azebaijan: il Caso del fiume Kura-Araks, in: Gazzetta Ambiente N. 4 2015 (ISSN 1123-5489)

Chapters

• Power asymmetries and integration process: challenges ahead for the EAEU, in: “The Elgar companion to the Eurasian Economic Unio”n (ISBN: 978 1 80037 499 7)
• Conflict Structuralization and Post-Conflict Society Deterioration: the Case of the South Caucasus, in: “Governance in Conflict Selected Cases in Europe and Beyond” (ISBN-13: 978-3643909053 ISBN-10: 3643909055)