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. 

Currently, she is also leading a research team within the framework of 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), where she has co-founded and is co-directing the Intersect Observatory. She is also an external member of the University Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies at the Department of Public International Law of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague.

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) and a guest lecturer in Budapest (HU), Bratislava (SK) and Kharkiv (Ukraine). 

She has been 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.