Federica Cristani Senior Researcher
Federica Cristani is the Head of the Centre for International Law and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. Her main research interests include the international law of state responsibility in different fields of international law, such as international economic law, international law of cyberspace, gender policies, and the policies of subregional groups in Europe.
She has contributed to international research projects. Within the Horizon Europe HRJust project (States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification: A Study in Civil Society Engagement and Human Rights through the Lens of Gender and Intersectionality), she headed a research team and co-founded and co-directed the Intersect Observatory. She is also an external member of the University Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, and a team member of the GRID-AFRICA project (Governance, Resilience, Infrastructure, and Digital Transition in Africa), funded under the EUI Widening Programme 2026.
She holds a PhD (with the certificate of Doctor Europaeus) in international law and a degree in law from the University of Verona (IT). She earlier worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Verona at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern (CH), where she contributed as WP leader to the Horizon 2020 CLISEL project (Climate Security with Local Authorities). She has been a visiting scholar in different universities and research centres in Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, USA and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (FI). She has been adjunct professor in Bologna (IT), a guest lecturer in Budapest (HU), Bratislava (SK) and Kharkiv (Ukraine), and an adjunct lecturer at Anglo-American University in Prague (CZ). She is currently an instructor at the University of New York in Prague.
She was a Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) for the period 2020-2023, and since December 2022, she has been enlisted in the CEI List of Individual External Experts to Assist the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) for the SO2 Strategic Objective 2.1 (Current cybersecurity policy frameworks).
She is also a member of the Board and the Chair of the Research Ethics Commission at the Institute of International Relations Prague.
