Cecilia Emma Sottilotta is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), where she teaches Political Risk Analysis in a European Perspective, and a City Diplomacy Lab Associate Fellow. From 2017 to 2022, she served as Assistant Professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the American University of Rome. She has been Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Salzburg, Austria (2016), Visiting Professor at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia (2017 and 2023), DAAD Visiting Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies – GIGA Hamburg (2019), Visiting Researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre of the Hertie School, Berlin (2021), Visiting Researcher at the Centrum für Europäische Politik, Berlin (2024).