The Governance of Loss
New staff members
3 September 2026
While economic transitions can create new opportunities, they also bring profound losses: jobs and industries may disappear, places and communities can be affected, and established ways of life may be disrupted. The project conceptualises the governance of such losses as a crucial, yet still under-theorised, field of regulatory intervention in the EU.
We warmly welcome Felicia, Lorenzo and Sam to the team and ACELG. Their research will explore distinct dimensions of the project through the automotive industry, tourism, and climate change.
I am a PhD candidate embedded within the GovLoss project. After a bachelor's in Philosophy at the UvA, I attained both a master's degree in Sociology and a research master's degree in Social Sciences at the UvA. Following graduation, I worked as a junior lecturer in Sociology for several years, alongside a smaller appointment researching higher education intervention.
As part of the team, I will study loss in the automotive industry, with a particular focus on trade unions. As both the automotive industry and trade unions decline across the EU, the EU increasingly intervenes through policy directives to govern these losses. As a scholar trained in ethnography, I will head to the production plant to investigate these processes from below.
I have an interdisciplinary background, with a bachelor’s degree in European Cultures and Society from Europa-Universität Flensburg, and a master's degree in International Relations and Global Political Economy from Stockholm University. Alongside my studies, I worked as a research assistant at the chair for European Law during my bachelor's and at the department for Economic History and International Relations during my master's. After graduating from my master's in summer 2025, I worked on a project on aid transfers to Ukraine at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and, most recently, as an intern at the German Agency for International Cooperation.
In the GovLoss project, I plan to study the losses that are experienced in relation to climate change and the green transition in the farming and fishing sector as well as how they can and should be addressed, integrating a gender lens.
I am a cultural and visual anthropologist. I have graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, carrying out ethnography over the effects of the Articolo 21 of Italian penitentiary law, and later obtained a Master's degree from Utrecht University conducting ethnography in a Dutch recycling station. In Utrecht I also started developing a passion for filmmaking as a means of research dissemination.
As a GovLoss-EU PhD candidate, I will research the governance of loss in European mountainous regions, with a specific attention to the Italian Alpine arch. My research will verge on the sectors of tourism and agriculture, by employing mixed methods drawn from anthropology and law. Among other aspects, this study will focus on the non-material components of loss and the importance of their integration in building a just governance framework.