2020-2023      Member of the Research Unit of the University of Milano (p.i.  T. Galanti)  in the project financed by the Minister for Higher education (PRIN 2017WMW433_002) “Who Advises What, When and How? Policy analysis capacity and its impact on Italian policymaking”, Universities of Bologna, Milano, Napoli, Torini (€ 110.000)

2021                     PSR2020 – “Institutional, political and policy factors and the spread of Sars-CoV-2″ (Cov-IPP)

2017-2020      Principal investigator of the National research project financed by the Minister for Higher education (PRIN 2015P7RCL5) “Politics and Policy in Europe in times of crisis: causes and consequences”, Universities of Milano, Siena, S. Anna Pisa, SNS Pisa, UniTelma Roma, Napoli, Catania (€ 464.922).

2015                   PSR2015-linea 2 – “Pollsters’ errors in electoral predictions” (PEEP)

2011-2014      Principal investigator of the Research Unit of the University of Milano in the project financed by the Minister for Higher Education (PRIN 2009TPW4NL_002) “Institutions and agenda-setting: actors, time and information” (€ 95.429).

2008-2010      Principal investigator of the National research project financed by the Minister for Higher education (PRIN 2007SCRWT4) “Arenas of law- and policy-making: Games, vetoes, networks”, Universities of Milano, Forlì and Siena (€ 110.370).

2005-2007      Principal investigator of the Research Unit of the University of Milano in the project financed by the Minister for Higher Education (PRIN 2005141220_003) “Italian Parliaments in the era of political alternation: actors, processes and functions in the new legislatures” (€ 37.770).

2002-2004      Principal investigator of the Research Unit of the University of Milano in the project financed by the Minister for Higher Education (PRIN 2002141487_003) “Towards the end of a legislative-oriented parliament? The ‘new’ functions of the Italian parliament in a comparative perspective”. (€ 49.500).

2000                    Member of the Research Unit of the University of Milano in the PRIN project (MM14035953_002) “Istituzioni e politiche dell’Unione europea: fra vincoli del passato e opportunità del futuro”.

1999                     Member of the Research Unit of the University of Milano in the PRIN project (9914624143_003) “Le politiche pubbliche italiane tra sovra-nazionalizzazione e decentramento”.

1997-1998       Member of the Research project “Public Participation and Environmental Science and Technology Options” (PESTO), Aalborg university, Bocconi university, Kaunas University of Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Lund, Lancaster University. 

1997                     Member of the Research Unit of the University of Milano in the PRIN project (9714304022_002) “Organizzazioni internazionali e determinazione delle agende nazionali”.