Angelica Vascotto is a pan-European Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), where she focuses her work on the Balkans, EU enlargement and security. She is also an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Ca' Foscari University and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Trieste for IR and Strategic Studies. She obtained her PhD in Institutions and Policies in cotutelle agreement between the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and the University of Sarajevo. She holds a MA in Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies from King's College London and a BA in Linguistic Sciences for International Relations from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.