Dr. Cristani is a Virtual Open Research Laboratory Associate at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Centerof the University of Illinois, USA and Rapporteur in the Comparative COVID19 Project, Institute for New Economic Thinking - Young Scholar Initiative. She earlier worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the World Trade Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland, and at the University of Verona, Italy, and has been a Visiting Researcher in different universities and research centres in Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Her main research interests include international investment law with a focus on sub-regional groups in Europe and cybersecurity.