Valerio Vignoli is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Social and Political Science of the University of Milan. He is involved in a project aiming to apply techniques of Machine Learning to the analysis of EU legislation. In his PhD thesis, he explored the party politics of military interventions in Italy between 1994 and 2013. His articles are published on various Italian and International journals, including West European Politics, Government and Opposition and Italian Political Science Review.