Angelo Vito Panaro

postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dr. Angelo Vito Panaro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he collaborates with the V-Dem Institute on the “Academic Freedom Index” research project.

Before joining FAU, Angelo was a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University (2023-2024) and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Milan (2021-2023). From 2019 to 2024 he also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna.

His research interests include authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, comparative welfare states, social policy, global redistribution, and socio-economic inequality. Since 2025, he has been the co-chair of the Italian Political Science Standing Group ‘Political Regimes’.