Denis Cenusa is an Associated Expert with GSSC and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance in Florence. His doctoral research at Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany) focuses on EU governance and Russian hybrid energy warfare in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. Over the past 15 years, he has published comparative, country- and region-focused analyses on European integration in post-Soviet space, EU–Russia competition, the geopolitics of critical infrastructure, hybrid warfare, and great-power competition, with a particular emphasis on the Black Sea region, as well as a research interest in the emergence of Global South regions, particularly China’s influence. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Romanian.