Since September 2020, Chiara Valli works as a research assistant and PhD student at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern. Between 2014 and 2017, Chiara Valli studied political sience at the University of Zurich and completed a Research Masters at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam where she specialized in political communication. Her research interests lie in the area of persuasive communication, campaigning, political psychology, and electoral behaviour.