Federica is Jean Monnet Visiting Lecturer at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) and co-editor of the ENTER policy brief series (an output of the COST Action CA17119 - EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities: Perceptions, Contestation, Communication and Relations). She holds a PhD (with the certificate of Doctor Europaeus) in international law and a degree in law from the University of Verona (IT).
Since April 2020, she is part of the rapporteur team for the Comparative COVID19 project managed by the Association for Promotion of Political Economy and Law, Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholar Initiative and the International University College of Turin.
Most recently, she has been Visiting Researcher at the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen (DK), SAIA Visiting Researcher in the framework of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic at the Comenius University and Think Visegrad Non-V4 Expert Fellow at the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava (SK), as principal researcher in a project on cybersecurity and investment protection funded by the International Visegrad Fund.
Between 2016 and 2019, she was Post-doctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern (CH), where she was Work Package leader and part of the team for the implementation of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme H2020-DRS-2015 Coordination and support action Climate Security with Local Authorities (CLISEL - https://clisel.eu). Between 2015 and 2016, she was Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (HU).
She was Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (DE) and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK).
She has published a number of articles and contributions in edited books and peer-reviewed journals. She has acquired an extensive teaching experience in Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine; she has been speaker at international conferences in Europe, Brazil, Nigeria and Taiwan.