Biography

Abdollah Baei Lashaki is a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, where he leads the work package on voting, organisational, and network analysis within the ERC-funded GLOBAL project, coordinated by Professor Daniele Caramani. His research investigates the cleavages shaping world politics, focusing on the dimensionality of conflict through roll-call vote analysis and employing advanced quantitative and network methods.

Before joining the EUI, Abdollah was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Catania, contributing to the EU Quest project on politicisation, representation, and agenda-setting in the European Parliament. He holds a Joint International PhD in Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance, with a dissertation on NGO access strategies in EU human rights policymaking. His broader research interests include legislative studies, lobbying, advocacy, human rights and EU politics, combining both qualitative and quantitative approaches—including R programming and data analytics—to generate empirically grounded insights.