Marta Lorimer is Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University. Her main research interests are in the area of far right politics, with a specialism on far right parties in France and Italy. She is also interested in differentiated integration in the EU and political parties' approach to EU integration. 

Marta has authored two books: ‘Europe as ideological resource: European integration and far-right legitimation’ (Oxford University Press, 2024) and ‘Flexible Europe: Differentiated integration, Fairness and Democracy’ (Bristol University Press, 2022, with Richard Bellamy and Sandra Kröger). Her research has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nation and Nationalism, Swiss Political Science Review, Comparative European Politics, and East European Politics and Societies.  

Prior to joining Cardiff University, Marta was Fellow in European Politics at the London School of Economics and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter. She has also held visiting positions at Forum MIDEM at TU Dresden and at the Centre d’Etudes Européennes in Sciences Po Paris.