Sanna Salo is an Academy of Finland post-doctoral fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She earned her PhD in 2017 from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and has since worked at the Universities of Stockholm and Helsinki. Her field of expertise is comparative European politics, especially the Nordic countries and, most recently, Germany. Her recent research has focused on the European centre-left and centre-right parties’ strategies towards the rising radical right. Together with Professor Jens Rydgren (Stockholm University), she has published a book titled ‘The Battle Over Working-Class Voters: How Social Democracy Has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries’ (2021), which studies the responses of Nordic labour movements to the rise of the radical right in the region. In March 2024, she will begin her new Kone Foundation funded project titled ‘Divided and Lost? The Strategies of Center-Right Parties to the Radical Right Challenge in Finland, Sweden and Germany’.