Fabrizio Gilardi is Professor of Policy Analysis in the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich, and the co-founder and director of the Digital Democracy Lab. His research interests include policy diffusion, gender and politics, and digital technology and politics. His work has been published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal Political Science, the European Journal of Political Research, and Comparative Political Studies, among others. With the support of an ERC Advanced Grant, Fabrizio Gilardi is currently working on the project "Problem Definition in Digital Democracy" (PRODIGI), which studies the development and effects of different discourses regarding the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy.