In my research on novel institutions and models of governance, I investigate normative issues that pertain to supranational and global governance. One focus has been on the project of European integration: In interdisciplinary work that marries political philosophy with political economy and economics, I have investigated, inter alia, what equitable risk-sharing implies for supranational monetary cooperation, what principles of equality of opportunity should govern transnational labour markets, and how to improve the fairness of the global sovereign debt regime. I am presently completing a book on the political morality of supranational governance with a special focus on the European Union.

Thinking about the ethics of systemic financial risk during my postdoc in Zurich, I got interested in assessing the ethics of new technologies more generally. Specifically, my aim is to better understand the effects of the ongoing digital transformation and AI-related changes to society. This last research stream is the most recent, but I have already begun to author and publish in this field. In one a series of articles, I explored the trust/technology nexus by asking what concept of trust we need to meaningfully assess non-human agents, including AI-technology. In other work, I have started to extend my philosophical work on solidarity to the issue of social transformations triggered by technology: one recent piece investigates the normative implications of such phenomena as ‘datafication’, ‘technology induced social fragmentation’ for social solidarity and cohesion. My aspiration in this area of research is, first, to make, over time, a major contribution to the field of ‘political theory of Artificial Intelligence governance’, a nascent sub-discipline that sees AI-induced change as giving rise to genuinely political questions rather than merely topics in applied ethics.

Beyond the distinctly institutional focus of much research mentioned so far, I aspire to work out the attitudes and dispositions that individuals are required to hold for institutions to work properly. One important but underexplored concept in this context is solidarity. Whilst on leave from for a fellowship at the EUI in Florence, I started to work, in collaboration with Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni, on this concept, its value and prerequisites. Amongst the publications to come out of this is an edited volume on the philosophy of solidarity with OUP, a new contribution to the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, and articles that work out the prerequisites, demands and values of solidaristic practices. My work on solidarity and social trust is rooted in a desire to invigorate social inclusion and equality. In the future I plan to expand my research by presenting my account of solidarity in a monograph.