Marco Siddi is Leading Researcher at FIIA, where he is also Principal Investigator of the project Infrastructure/Institutions Match for Resilient & Just Green Electrification (2IMATCH), funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Research Council of Finland and led by Professor Pami Aalto. He is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Cagliari, Italy, Adjunct Professor in World Politics at the University of Helsinki and in International Relations at Tampere University. He is also a Board Member of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), a member of the European Leadership Network and of the ECPR Research Network on Energy Politics, Policy, and Governance. He received his PhD at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cologne, in the framework of the Marie Curie Training Network ‘Exact’ concerning the external action of the European Union.
Siddi’s work focuses primarily on energy politics, the politics of memory and identity, European politics and EU-Russia relations. His latest monographs are European Energy Politics: The Green Transition and EU-Russia Energy Relations (Edward Elgar 2023) and European Identities and Foreign Policy Discourses on Russia: From the Ukraine to the Syrian Crisis (Routledge, 2020). Siddi has also co-edited the volume Historical Memory and Foreign Policy (Palgrave 2022). His research was published in top-ranked international academic journals, including the Journal of European Public Policy, Geopolitics, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of European Integration, The International Spectator, German Politics, Politics and Governance and International Politics.
Beyond FIIA, Siddi has written policy analyses for several European think tanks, as well as for LSE EUROPP, OpenDemocracy and the European Leadership Network.