Alessandro Orsini

Alessandro Orsini (born 1975) is an Italian sociologist and scholar of terrorism who is currently an associate professor at LUISS University. Early life and education Orsini was born in Naples, the son of Arturo Orsini, a Jungian psychologist who was later a professor of theory and techniques of personality testing and director of the School of Clinical Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome; when he was fifteen, his family moved to Latina, where he graduated from the Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri. He earned a degree in sociology from Sapienza University followed by a doctorate from Roma Tre University. Career In November 2004, Orsini took up a position as a researcher at Libera Università Mediterranea. He had teaching duties, and in 2007 was disciplined by the university for absenteeism. Several well-known sociologists, and the Federation of Education Workers union, wrote to the university in Orsini's support. He was subsequently a researcher in the sociology of political phenomena at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where from 2013 to 2016 he directed the Centre for Terrorism Studies, with a focus on Islamist terrorism in Europe. His book on ISIS published by Rizzoli Libri won the for best work on a current-affairs topic in 2016.