Francesco Trupia, Researcher & Policy Analyst
I am an Adjunct at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, and a research fellow at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. My research focuses on democracy, memory and political participation of minority groups in Southeast and Eastern Europe, looking at the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial and post-conflict contexts.
In 2023, I interned at the Centre for Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Centre of Political History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In spring 2022, I also carried out part of my postdoctoral research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. In 2020, I obtained a PhD in Political Philosophy from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria. While pursuing my doctorate, I attended summer programs in Germany, Russia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Greece.
Over the last ten years, I have also worked as a Policy Analyst. I am a member of the 9th Cycle of the Young Academics Network at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in Brussels. I have executed research studies and analyses for the Institute of European Democrats in Brussels, the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society in Pristina, the Caucasus Resource Research Centre in Yerevan, and the London-based “Institute for Islamic Strategic Affairs – IISA. My op-ed articles appear in Cross-Border Talks, Lossi36, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa, and the Forum for Ukrainian Studies.
Between 2014 and 2015, I worked in the NGO sector in Bulgaria; I interned at the NGO Focus – European Centre for Development, working with vulnerable groups in the city of Pazardzhik. I later volunteered for the Caritas-led “Refugee Project” in Sofia, where I taught English and Art classes for Syrian and Iraqi refugees. I am currently a Mentor for the Polonium Foundation and engaged in other informal cooperation with networks of scholars, students, and activists.
