Andrea Guidotti

Andrea Guidotti is a Researcher in Public Opinion Analysis, Comparative Politics, and European Integration. He holds an M.A. in World Politics and International Relations from the University of Pavia and a B.A. in Contemporary History and Philosophy from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy and carried out an Erasmus exchange at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

His research centers on (il)liberalism and democracy, populism and Euroscepticism, and the socio-economic consequences of crises and technology. He draws particular attention to comparative analysis and experimental methods, both qualitative and quantitative. He also has skills in policy analysis, monitoring & evaluation, and data analysis using SPSS and Stata. His master’s dissertation empirically examined the impact of major shocks – the COVID-19 pandemic and the European debt crisis – on the relationship between populism and Euroscepticism. 

He has experience in the private sector. He is currently a project analyst at Applica srl in Brussels and worked as a junior market researcher at Seamless srl in Milan. He is also a non-resident research fellow of the group on AI & cybersecurity at EPIS Thinktank in Berlin. Previously, he served as an academic assistant within the master’s in technology and public policy at ITC-ILO in Turin and as a research intern at the European Center for Populism Studies in Brussels.