Bio
 

Giulia Sandri serves as Scientific Advisor at the EU Liaison Office of the Université libre de Bruxelles and as Research Fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. From 2012 to 2024, she was an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Catholic University of Lille, France, where she directed the ESPOL-LAB Research Centre for European and International Politics and the Master in Digital Politics and Governance. Sandri is a Co-Convenor of the PSA’s Technology, Internet, and Policy Specialist Group (TIP), Science Communication Coordinator and Management Committee Member in the COST Action CA23114 - Digital technologies improving civic engagement and democracy and plays an active role (WP leader and researcher) in the Horizon Europe project “ACTEU,” which aims to foster European citizens' trust amid crises and polarization (2023-2026). Additionally, she co-chairs the Digital Parties Network.

Previously, Sandri held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Christ Church College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She earned her PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her research interests encompass AI policy, digital politics, comparative politics, and political behavior. Sandri’s recent publications appear in journals such as Information, Communication & Society, Minds and Machines and Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Her full list of publications can be found on ORCID, on Researchgate, or GoogleScholar.


CV
 

  • Scientific Advisor, EU Liaison Office, Université libre de Bruxelles (06/2024-present)
  • Research Fellow, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (07/2024-present)
  • Associate Professor in Political Science, Catholic University of Lille, France (2012-05/2024)
  • Director, ESPOL-LAB Research Centre for European and International Politics, Catholic University of Lille, France (2023-05/2024)
  • Director, Master’s in Digital Politics and Governance, Catholic University of Lille, France (2021-05/2024)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Christ Church College and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (2011-2012)
  • Research Assistant and Doctoral Researcher, CEVIPOL, Université libre de Bruxelles (2007-2011)
  • Research Assistant, ISPOLE, Université catholique de Louvain (2006-2007)

  • https://german.politics.uni-mainz.de/files/2024/07/CV-Giulia-Sandri-07-2024.pdf

 


Areas of research
 

- AI policy and regulation

- Digital politics and digital democracy

- Comparative politics

- Quality of democracy (in multi-level systems)

- Political behaviour and attitudes, in particular: online political information consumption, social media and voting behaviour and political trust



 

Research

Giulia Sandri's main research expertise centers on EU digital and AI policy, digital politics and democracy, and comparative politics. She investigates the quality of democracy in multi-level systems, political behavior, best practices to combat disinformation and online information consumption's impact on political trust and voting behavior.

Giulia Sandri’s research portfolio encompasses multiple high-impact projects focused on AI, democracy, and digital governance. She participates in the European Commission’s “Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Democracy” project with the Joint Research Centre (JRC). In the COST Action "RELINK²- Regaining linkage? Digital technologies improving civic engagement, political organisations and democracy " project (2024-2028), she coordinates science communication efforts to enhance civic engagement through digital tools. In NATO’s FREETAD (“France & Estonia – Together Against Disinformation”) project, she co-leads research on best practices for countering disinformation. For the Horizon Europe “ACTEU-  Towards a new era of representative democracy – Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization” project, she explores citizen trust during crises as researcher and Work Package Leader. Additionally, her work includes projects on smart cities, social media and electoral behavior, and democratic transitions, further underscoring her expertise in comparative politics and digital democracy.

Publications

Novelli Claudio and Sandri Giulia (2025). “Digital Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Chapter in: Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo (ed). “A Companion to Digital Ethics”, Blackwell - Wiley, forthcoming 2025, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4901264

Novelli Claudio, Juneja Prathm, Sandri Giulia and Luciano Floridi (2024) “Artificial Intelligence for the Internal Democracy of Political Parties”, Mind and Machines, 34(36), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-024-09693-x  .

Sandri, G., Lupato, F. G., Meloni, M., von Nostitz, F., & Barberà, O. (2024). Mapping the digitalisation of European political parties. Information, Communication & Society, 1-22, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2343369  

Neihouser Marie, Haute Tristan, Sandri Giulia, Von Nostitz Felix (2022). "Les réseaux socionumériques dans la campagne présidentielle de 2022 en France : diversité des usages, diversité des usager·e·s ?". Revue Française de Science Politique, 2022 (6), 977-996, https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-science-politique-2022-6-page-977?lang=fr

 

Updated on January 8, 2025