Federico M. Rossi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After completing his Bachelor in Political Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires he went to Florence. In Italy he obtained at the European University Institute a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences in 2011. His research interests have included national and transnational social movements, protest, trade unions, democratization, and youth political participation. His field research has, to date, been primarily in Argentina, Brazil and Italy and he has written on the assemblies’ movement of Buenos Aires, the piqueteros movement in Argentina, land reform movements in Brazil, transnational movements, trade unions and globalization in Latin America, democratization and contentious politics, and youth political participation.

Research interests: youth political participation, national and transnational social movements, democratization and contentious politics, and Latin America