Daniela currently serves as a member of the ECPR Executive Committee and Chairs its Working Group on Academic Freedom.
She is co-convenor of the BISA Foreign Policy Working Group.
She is also review editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.
Daniela has been a visiting scholar at several universities and research centres in Europe, the US and Asia.
She has been awarded a DAAD Fellowship at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, a research grant at the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Alberta, Canada, and a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
Daniela has published extensively in International Relations and EU politics.
Her research is focused on non-state actors’ influence on global politics, both positive (civil society organisations and NGOs) and negative (organised crime and terrorism).
With Marianna Charountaki, she was recently appointed co-editor of the Springer series Non-state Actors in International Relations.
She is the author of EU Emergency Response Policies and NGOs: Trends and Innovations
Palgrave, 2018
