Emilija is a researcher at SYRI, the National Institute for Research on the Socio-Economic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks, part of PA5, working on populism and polarisation.
She holds a PhD in Public and Social policy obtained as a Marie Currie Fellow under the Horizon 2020 program, PLATO (2017–2022).
Her published research has focused on EU democratic legitimacy, party politics, technopopulism, and conflicts of sovereignty in the EU.
She has previously worked for the British Embassy in Skopje and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany.
Her current research explores the risks to representative democracies and the historical interlinks between politics and economics in the EU’s West and Central East.
Emilija regularly writes op-eds for Social Europe, European and Western Balkans media.
The Technocratic Populist Loop: Clashes Between Parliamentary and Popular Sovereignty in EU’s Eastern and Southern Periphery
with Julia Rone, in Sovereignty in Conflict: Political, Constitutional and Economic Dilemmas in the EU
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Legitimation strategies and national parliaments: The case of anti-corruption
in The Politics of Legitimation in the European Union: Legitimacy Recovered?
Routledge, 2022
