Lorenzo Zamponi is a research fellow in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, with a thesis on the relationship between collective memory and social movements. His research interests include memory, contentious politics, student movements, anti-austerity activism and media analysis. He has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals and book chapters on the recent wave of anti-austerity mobilization.

He is currently involved in the LIVEWHAT project (“Living with Hard Times – How European citizens deal with economic crises and their social and political consequences”) and in the project “Collective Action and the Refugee Crisis”.

Research interests: collective memory, media, and economic crisis