Dr. Edoardo D'Alfonso Masarié

Academic and professional career

2023-Present: Lecturer for Social Security Law, Munich University of Applied Sciences

2023-Present: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich

2020-2023: Parliamentary Researcher, Thuringian State Parliament, Erfurt

2017-2020: PhD (Doctor of Law) student at the Chair of Public Law, Social Law and Health Law, University of Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kingreen)

2015-2017: Parliamentary Assistant to a Member of the European Parliament

2013-2014: Master in Insurance, compulsory and complementary welfar, public and integrative health care, Cattaneo University, Castellanza/Milan

2007-2012: Law studies, University of Bologna, including a research period abroad at the University of Antwerp, Flanders/Belgium

Scholarships and grants

2022: Doctoral dissertation publication grant by the Research Network on Old Age Security ("FNA") of the DRV Bund

2017-2020: PhD scholarship by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)

2012: Scholarship for a research period abroad by the University of Bologna

Awards

2022, for the doctoral dissertation: prize of the Maria Giovanna Cubeddu-Wiedemann Foundation for the best law doctoral dissertation with international relevance at the University of Regensburg

2015, for the Master's thesis: award of the Associazione italiana cultura previdenziale (Italian Association for Welfare Culture)

Memberships (selection)

German-Italian Law Association (DIJV)

Görres Society

German Social Law Association

European Institute of Social Security (EISS)

• Welfare State and Federalism
• Old age security systems
• LTC security systems
• Comparative public law
• German State constitutional law and state electoral law
• Italian constitutional law