Alice holds a BA in Conflict & Peace Studies from the University of Pisa and an MA in Conflict  Transformation and Social Justice from Queen’s University Belfast.

Her PhD project explores activist agency and civil society adaptations in autocracies, particularly in the SWANA region, adopting processual and multidisciplinary approaches.

Outside academia, she has collaborated with different civil society organisations as a campaigner since 2020. Her work in this context focused on issues of arms trade, civilians in armed conflicts, corporate accountability, and international solidarity.

Research interests: civil society, armed conflict, social movements, social justice, memory, Processual-Relational Approach, and authoritarian regimes and non democracies