Míriam Acebillo-Baqué is a researcher at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV). PhD in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB). Degree in Physics (UAB). Master in Governance, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. Master in Strategies, Policies and Agents of Development Cooperation, HEGOA Institute, Universidad del País Vasco and postgraduate in Culture of Peace in the Escola de Cultura de Pau (UAB). Her research focuses on the relationship between policies and social actors and the challenges posed by phenomena such as human mobility, inequality or the environmental crisis in contemporary societies, and includes research sub-strands related to transformative innovation; the agency of civil society in governance processes; policies on development and peace; and intersectional approaches to inequality. For more information you can see: Research Gate, Google Scholar, and Ingenio.
Vlad is a critical political scientist interested in political elites, left parties, transnational politics, and the EU. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Portsmouth (2019). Between 2019 and 2022, Vlad worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the MIGRADEMO project at UAB. As of the end of 2022, he works as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Changing Elites project, hosted by the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford and dealing with how social and institutional change has altered the processes of elite formation in the UK over time. Here, Vlad focuses on the impact of class background on the ideology and decision-making of power elites. He is interested, in particular, in their economic policymaking and the class background of their party elites. For more information you can see: Google Scholar, Research Gate, LinkedIn.
Stefano Camatarri is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he is also member of the research group in Transnational Relations, Democratization and Migration (TransDeM). Previously, he was JSPS Fellow at Waseda University (Japan) and FSR post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research interests regard the comparative study of political behaviour and attitudes, electoral competition, migrant political participation and engagement ‘across borders’. His work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as European Union Politics, Political Studies Review, the Swiss Political Science Review and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. For more information you can see: Google Scholar, Research Gate, Orcid.
Irina Ciornei was previously Marie-Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at IBEI with the project “The missing pillar. European social policy and Eurosceptic challenges” (SOCIALEU) where she investigated the relationship between supranational social policy and Euroscepticism based on an original methodology that combines qualitative inquiry and experimental research. Irina’s work focuses on topics related to European politics, immigrant incorporation and public policy implementation. Irina holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Previously, she was also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bern. In her previous work she dealt with the transnationalisation of party politics, emigrant political participation and governance of morality policies. She published her work in the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and Party Politics. For more information you can see: Google Scholar, Research Gate.
Luisa Faustini Torres is a Margarita Salas Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Prior to that, she completed a Master’s in Immigration Management at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2015) and a Master’s in International Relations at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (2012), where she specialized in Global Governance and Foreign Policy. Her PhD research focused on the nexus between EU External Migration Policies and the Democratization of countries in the Southern Mediterranean neighbourhood (with a focus on Morocco as a case study). Her main research interests are Migration Politics and Policies and their intersection with processes of Autocratization/Democratization in the Euro-Mediterranean region and beyond. For more information you can see: LinkedIn, Orcid, Google Scholar.
Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the MPI-MMG. He supports the Diversity Assent in Urban Germany (DivA) project and conducts research on the inclusion of migrants in German political parties. Nicolas holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and is a research affiliate of the ERC-funded MIGRADEMO project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). His research interests are political participation and inclusion of migrants with a focus on political parties, elections and civil society organisations. In his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas studied the political transnational activities of Latin American emigrants and political parties in Spain. Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative methods commonly used in political sociology. For more information you can see: Google Scholar, Research Gate, Orcid.
Laurence Go is a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research interests center on political economy, development and labor economics. He has completed his PhD in Applied Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics and a BS in Business Economics at the University of the Philippines. He also served as a consultant at the World Bank. For more information you can see: Google Scholar, Research Gate, Website
Ahmed Kadiri is a PhD candidate in the Politics, Policies and International Relations (PPIR) program at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) where he explores the nexus between return migration and democratic diffusion in the context of Morocco. He also works on the MIGRADEMO project as a predoc researcher focusing on the Moroccan case. He obtained a master’s degree in Migration Studies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2018-2019) and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with a minor in Communication at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco (2014-2018). His main research interests are migration, political engagement, political discourse analysis, remittances, and diasporas. For more information you can see: LinkedIn.
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Eva Østergaard-Nielsen is a professor of political science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2010. Her main research interests center on the politics of migration in both receiving and origin countries, migrants’ transnational networks and, processes of migration led democratic diffusion in countries of origin. She is a member of the advisory board of two leading journals of migration studies and the IMISCOE Research Book Series. She has been the lead researcher and participated in a range of projects funded at the national and international level, such as Migrademo Project. Her most recent publications have appeared in Party Politics, West European Politics and European Political Science Review. For more information you can see: Google Scholar, Research Gate.
Deniz Pelek is a research collaborator in the MIGRADEMO Project at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and an affiliated researcher at Institut français d’études anatoliennes. She was a postdoc in the MIGRADEMO Project from 02/2020 to 09/2023. She obtained her Ph.D. from Bogazici University and the University of Paris-8 (cotutelle). Her research interests include agrarian studies, political sociology migration and refugee studies. Her publications appeared in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Qualitative Research, Migrations Société and Toplum ve Bilim. For more information you can see: Research Gate, Google Scholar, Academia.
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