Dr. Ermela GIANNA
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020 Salzburg
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Dr. Ermela Gianna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Chair of Politics & Gender, Diversity & Equality, Department of Political Science, University of Salzburg, and recipient of the Post-Track Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She completed her PhD in 2025 with a dissertation analysing the European Parliament’s role in the establishment, legitimation, and oversight of the Recovery and Resilience Facility during the Covid-19 crisis.
Her research focuses on democracy, political participation, and representation in the European Union, with particular attention to EU institutions, economic governance, and parliamentary politics. She examines how the European Parliament operates within EU crisis governance, analysing inter-institutional negotiations, legislative debates, and oversight mechanisms. Her work has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European Integration, and the Journal of Common Market Studies.
During her postdoctoral research, she contributed to the Horizon Europe projects PushBackLash and ActEU, examining backlash politics, democratic representation, and gender equality in Europe. Her work in this area includes a co-authored chapter on representation and trust in Austria in the edited volume Activating European Citizens’ Trust in Times of Crisis and Polarization (Springer Nature). Her current research extends towards comparative analyses of political representation and democratic resilience.
