Luca Marano is a research assistant at the ERC project "States, Nationalism, and the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision (ETHNICGOODS)", coordinated by Dr. Matthias vom Hau.

He completed a Master’s Degree in International Security Studies jointly offered by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and the University of Trento. He was also visiting student at the Instituto de Migraciones (University of Granada) and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, where he worked on his master thesis on the impact of sub-state identities on immigrant integration policies in the Spanish regions of Andalusia and Catalonia.

Luca holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Trieste. He worked on various immigration-related issues both as a research intern at Eurac Research and as an administrative intern at the Italian Ministry of Interior Affairs.