Paolo Cossarini is María Zambrano Fellow at the Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Administration (University of Valencia), and member of the DEMOS research group (Aalborg University). Previously, he was postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University (Denmark), at the School of International Studies - University of Trento (Italy), and lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University (UK). He has also held visiting positions at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on democratic theory and populism, Italian and Spanish politics and nationalism, and protest movements.