Mathilde M. van Ditmars is assistant professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, where she is a member of the ERC SOLID project team.

His research interest includes studies on justification of democracy, participatory crisis of democracy, public ethic, epistocracy and its critics.

He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Milan and Director of the Global Public Policies component of Epra Hub.

She is the Director of the Evidence-Based Policy and Research Action Hub (EPRA Hub) at the University of Milan.

She is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political, Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Milano Statale.

Federico Bruno is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan