Sara Poli is full professor of EU law at the University of Pisa (Italy), Department of Political Science where she teaches EU law and the Law of EU external relations. She is also visiting professor at LUISS since 2024 and she has been visiting professor at the European University Institute, law department (2023). She has worked in the field of EU law since 1996. She has been a member of the Jean Monnet networks EUDIPLO on EU diplomacy and EUCTER on EU counterterrorism (2020-2024). She has held a Jean Monnet Chair (2013-2016). She has worked for Universities of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Trieste and Southampton (UK). She has carried out research with the support of the DAAD short term fellowship, Robert Schuman fellowship (EUI), the Marie Curie fellowship (EUI), the Fulbright-Schuman fellowship and the Belgian ‘Vlac fellowship’. She has been teaching assistant in the Department of European Legal Studies of the College of Europe (Bruges). She did her PhD studies at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna (Pisa) and she graduated from the University of Pisa. She has published in well known foreign and Italian legal Journals on various areas of EU law, including the law of the EU external relations.