PhD Student (Seed Money ULB)

Location
Bâtiment J - Bureau J.1.101
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 48 
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique


Mailing address
Université libre de Bruxelles
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 172/01
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique

claudia.ferrotti@ulb.be

Bio

Claudia is a PhD student in Political and Social sciences at ULB. She owns a Master’s degree in International and Security Politics from ESPOL - the Catholic University of Lille, France. Before that she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from the University of Trento, Italy. Her research interests include security and conflict studies, political violence, radicalisation and terrorism. Her PhD project is centered on studying the relational radicalisation between Hamas and Likud in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Research presentation

The Politics of Violence and Identity in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, under the supervision of Christian Olsson (REPI).

Areas of interest

Political violence, conflict studies, critical security studies, international relations, Israel/Palestine.

Selected publications

  • Ferrotti Claudia (2025) ‘The Politics of Security and Identity in Libya’s State Failure Discourse’, Proceedings of the World Conference on Security Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 9-22.
  • Ferrotti Claudia (2025) ‘The Construction of the Enemy: Netanyahu’s Use of Language Against the ICC’, JASON Magazine, Issue: Changing Ideas of Security, pp. 46-49.
Updated on January 16, 2026