Giulia Sciorati is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Trento, a Temporary Lecturer at the University of Pavia and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, and an Associate Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). Her research focuses on China’s foreign and security policies, relations between China and Central Asia and the country’s peripheries. She was awarded a PhD by the School of International Studies of the University of Trento in September 2020. Giulia was a visiting researcher at the University of Nottingham (spring 2018) and the University of Oxford (autumn 2021).