Sorina Soare is a researcher at the University of Florence. She holds a PhD in political science from the Université libre de Bruxelles and has previously studied political science at the University of Bucharest. She works in the area of post-communist comparative politics, and her main research interests are political parties, populism, transnational participation, and post-communism activism. Among her publications are Party Members and Their Importance in Non-EU Countries. A Comparative Analysis (with A. Iancu & S. Gherghina, Eds., Routledge, 2018), "Vote-Seeking Among Non-Resident Citizens: How Romanian Parties Form Organisations Abroad" (in Representation, with S. Gherghina, 2020), “More Than Voters: Parliamentary Debates About Emigrants in a New Democracy” (in Ethnicities, with S. Gherghina & P. Tap, 2021), and "No Populism’s Land? Religion and Gender in Romanian Politics" (in Identities, with C. Tufis, 2021). She has been involved in several projects as a country expert on Romania.