Gloria is an assistant professor in public policy and data science in University College London’s Department of Political Science. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Public Policy Group and Immigration Policy Lab at ETH Zurich. She holds a PhD in social and political sciences from Bocconi University. Her research in comparative political economy explores political behaviour in democratic societies, using causal inference and computational social science. She has worked with the Digital Speech Lab on initiatives concerning the effects of sanctioning hateful speakers online.