NURIA FONT
Principal Investigator
Nuria is an associate professor of political science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her main research interests include EU politics and policy-making, transparency and accountability at the EU, and legislative behaviour in the European Parliament. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chanpaign. She has been the principal investigator of several projects on legislative politics, agencification, and delegation and accountability at the EU level. She is currently the Coordinator of the PhD Program Politics, Policies and International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her most recent publications have appeared in Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Government & Opposition, International Review of Administrative Sciences, and Parliamentary Affairs.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-6829
@nuriafontb
RISTINA ARES
Team member
Cristina is an associate professor of political science and public administration at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her current research activity is focused on the development of administrative capacities with a special emphasis on the regional level, subnational parliaments as regards EU policymaking, transparency and accountability at the Union level, along with rule of law and the EU budget. She holds a master’s degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges. She has completed her training at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2278-629X
@cristinaarescc
ARIADNA RIPOLL-SERVENT
External collaborator
Ariadna is Professor for Politics of the European Union at the department of Political Science at the Salzburg University and Academic Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS), at the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg. She has studied at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and the College of Europe in Bruges. She obtained a DPhil in Contemporary European Studies from the Sussex European Institute (University of Sussex) in Brighton (2008–2011). She was a Postdoc Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research at the University of Vienna (2011-2013), before she became Junior Professor for Political Science and European Integration at the University of Bamberg (2013-2021). In 2019-2020, she was Jean Monnet Fellow and Research Fellow at the European Union Institute in Florence. Since 2019, she has acted as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.
Her main research interests are European integration, EU institutions, informal decision-making processes, populism and Euroscepticism, EU internal and security policies (with a focus on EU asylum and migration policy).
Her publications have appeared in high-ranked journals, such as the “Journal of European Public Policy”, “Journal of Common Market Studies”, “West European Politics”, “Journal of European Integration” and “Politics and Governance”.
Ariadna is the author and editor of four books, including “The European Parliament” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) and “The Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research” (Routledge, 2018). She is a member of the editorial board of the “Journal of European Integration”, “Migration Politics” and “Politics and Governance” as well as the “Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics” series.
MAARTEN HILLEBRANDT
External collaborator
Maarten is assistant professor in public management at the Utrecht University School of Governance, Public Governance and Management. He specializes in EU institutional law and governance, and has widely published on government transparency policy in and beyond the EU. In recent research, Maarten focuses on related public information questions related to the quantification of performance in the public sector, and disinformation. Maarten has previously held positions at the Eric Castrén Institute for International Law and Human Rights, Helsinki University; the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University; and the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), University of Amsterdam. In addition, he has been a visiting fellow at the Research Centre for the Analysis of Governance and Public Policy in Europe (LAGAPE), University of Lausanne, the Centre for European Research (CERGU), Gothenburg University, and the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Maarten participated in various multiple-year international research projects, namely Open Government in the EU (2010-2017), Quantification, Administrative Capacity, and Democracy (2017-2019) Transparency in the EU, From Reaction to Manifesto (2017-2021), en Separation of Powers for 21st Century Europe (2021-2022). Currently, Maarten is involved in Utrecht University’s inter-faculty cooperation within the cross-cutting sector plan Welfare, participation and citizenship in a digital world. Maarten’s most recent publications publications include several books as well as journal articles at Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Politics & Governance, Journal of European Integration, Politique Européene, and Risk Regulation, among others.
COLLEEN BOLAND
External collaborator
Colleen is postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University’s Centre for Migration Law, where her principal research line is examining labour integration and digitalization in Europe from a gender and intersectional perspective. She was instrumental in winning the 2024-2027 EU Horizon Global Strategy for Skills Migration and Development (GS4S) project, and is part of its coordination team. Previously at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) she worked on the EU Horizon2020 ITFLOWS (IT Tools and Methods for Managing Migration Flows) project, where she led the Gender Committee and her research duties related to mixed migration flows to Europe. She also coordinated “Gendered crimmigration discourse and practices: Catalan case and multilevel governance potential,” funded by the Institut Català Internacional per la Pau, and was a 2021-2022 re:constitution Fellow (funded by Stiftung Mercator). Current and past research interests include the crossroads of digitalization with diversity management and intersectional exclusion, identity construction among youth of migrant origin, and citizenship governance and participation, with specific reference to migrants, minorities and vulnerable populations residing in European societies.
PAULA SAN JOSÉ SERRANO
Research assistant
Paula is a research assistant at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Salamanca and a Master’s degree in Political and Electoral Analysis from the Universidad Carlos III. Her main interests are in the field of polling, quantitative methodologies and data analysis. Her professional experience is wide and varied, having contributed to the development of social research projects in the public and private sector. In the public sector she has experience as a research assistant at the University of Salamanca and as a methodologist and data analyst at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). In the private sector, she has experience as a demoscopic consultant at 40dB and as a data scientist at Kreab Worldwide.