Dr Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is also the Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit of the LSE. She holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and has spent research periods at Stanford University, New York University (New York), University of Siena and the Free University (Berlin). Her current research interests centre on foreign policy and diplomacy in the digital age.