Tommaso Virgili, Ph.D.
Research Fellow of the Research Unit
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TOMMASO VIRGILI is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Migration, Integration, Transnationalization Department. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Public Law from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. He is also a Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels. At the WZB, he works on Modernization Movements and Reform Theology within Islam in Response to the Challenge of Fundamentalism, with a Focus on Islam in Europe and the MENA region.
He is author of the book Islam, Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Sexual Minorities and Freethinkers in Egypt and Tunisia. Routledge, 2022.