Giorgia Perletta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and at the Prague University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include contemporary Iranian politics and history, the factionalism of post-revolutionary elites, and Iran's regional projection. She holds a PhD in Institutions and Politics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, where she is Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses.