Prof. Tommaso Piffer is an Associate Professor of Contemporary history at the University of Udine. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, a post-doctoral fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the Bodossakis Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Among his publications: "The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance: Intelligence, Politics, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939-1945" (Oxford University Press, 2024), an account of the relationship between the Allies and the Italian Resistance during World War II ("Gli Alleati e la Resistenza Italiana", Il Mulino, 2010) and the collection of essays "Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition" (with Vladislav Zubok, CEU Press, 2017). His current projects investigate borders and borderlands during the Cold War.