Chiara Valsangiacomo is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining UCD, she was a postdoctoral fellow and doctoral candidate at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests include political philosophy, normative democratic theory, democratic innovations, political representation and constitutional design theory. Her current research project, “Let the future be liquid. Democracy in the twenty-first century”, aims to develop a unified theoretical and normative framework that can be used to evaluate liquid democratic institutions and compare them with other democratic innovations.