Ludovica Castelli

Ludovica Castelli (Ph.D.) is Project Manager of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), where she also serves as Interim Managing Editor of The International Spectator. She is an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, where she was part of the ERC-funded “Third Nuclear Age” project. Her work focuses on Critical Security Studies, conceptual history, and nuclear politics, with a focus on the Middle East. Ludovica has presented her work at numerous academic and Track 1.5 venues across the US, the Middle East, and Europe, and has published in academic journals as well as in policy papers and commentaries. She is co-author of the book The Global Third Nuclear Age (Routledge, 2025) and is currently working on her first monograph based on her doctoral thesis.