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Ana Mar Fern\u00e1ndez Pasar\u00edn<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Mar Fern\u00e1ndez Pasar\u00edn is Associate Professor in Politics and Public Administration and Jean Monnet Chair in European Policies at the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Between 2009 and 2015, she was the vice-dean for economic affairs (Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, UAB) and between 2016 and 2018, the coordinator of the Political Science Unit of the UAB. She is the scientific coordinator of the EUGOV Consolidated Research Group and the principal investigator of the EUDEL Project: \u2018Delegation in the Post-Lisbon Era: a quantitative analysis of comitology\u2019 (UAB\/EUI) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2018-2021). Her main research areas are European institutional dynamics and policies, with specific reference to the EU presidential system and comitology procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nuria Font Borr\u00e1s<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Senior Research Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuria Font (PhD, UAB) is an Associate Professor of political science at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on EU institutions and politics. She has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently investigates EU decision-making, democratic accountability and transparency in EU policy-making, and the formulation and implementation of EU climate policy. She has published articles at the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Government & Opposition, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Administration & Society, Parliamentary Affairs, Environmental Politics, and Ecology & Society, among others. She\u2019s willing to supervise PhD dissertations on related topics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Javier Arregui<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

BACES Director and JMC EUGov Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University with the profile of Political Science (European Politics). As a Professor, he has broad experience in teaching and researching on European Union politics, comparative politics and public policy. He has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Governance three times (2016-2018, 2018-2021 and 2021-2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He received his PhD in Political Sciences from the Interuniversity Center for Social Science, Theory and Methodology (ICS) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Among other appointments, he has been a Research Fellow at ICS (1999-2004) and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Sociol\u00f3gicas (CIS) \u2013 Madrid (1998-1999).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Irina Ciornei<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ramon y Cajal researcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina Ciornei <\/strong>is a Ramon y Cajal researcher in the Department of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her work covers the fields of European Union politics, public policy and migration studies. Irina’s main area of research is in the field of European Union politics and policy-making, where she studies the effects of European distributive and redistributive policies on mass audiences. Irina is coordinating a research project on the effect of Next Generation EU funds on the political opinions of economic actors. The project is entitled \u2018Business and politics. How NGEU funds shape EU support (EUBUSINESS)\u2019 and is funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities between 09\/2024-08\/2028. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ixchel P\u00e9rez-Dur\u00e1n<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ixchel P\u00e9rez-Dur\u00e1n is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Her research interests include governance, accountability, regulation, trust, transparency, European Union institutions. She obtained her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University in December 2013, with European Doctorate Mention. Prior to joining the UAB, she was a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral research fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She has also been a visiting researcher at the Utrecht University School of Governance, Leiden University, the University of Antwerp, the European University Institute, and the Copenhagen Business School. Her research has been published in various journals, including the Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, West European Politics, JCMS: Journal of Common market Studies, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of European Integration, Comparative European Journal, Bulletin of Latin American Research, and the International Review of Administrative Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Xavier Ballart Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Dean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballart holds a PhD from the UAB and is a professor of Political Science and Administration. He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University and was a La Caixa postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He has taught semester-long courses at Indiana University, the College of Europe (Bruges), the University of Montpellier, the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) and, in shorter formats, at various higher education institutions in Latin America. He has also collaborated with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB-BID). He is a member of the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) at the UAB. He was director of the Department of Political Science and Public Law, coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Public Management (UAB-UB-UPF) and first secretary-editor of the Spanish Journal of Political Science. His initial research interest focused on public policy evaluation and administrative innovation and reform. In recent years, he has worked on motivation for public service and the analysis of public service performance, particularly in the field of primary healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joan Mir\u00f3 Artigas<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan Mir\u00f3 is an Assistant Professor in EU Politics & Policy at Pompeu Fabra University. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2019. He was previously postdoctoral researcher at Milan University and Institut Barcelona d\u2019Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). His research interests lie in European integration, particularly the socioeconomic governance of the EMU, social policy, and international political economy, particularly in relation to globalisation and state transformations. He has published in international journals, such as Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, Global Society, Review of International Political Economy, Policy Studies or Journal of European Integration.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alina Felder-Stindt<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alina Felder-Stindt is an Assistant Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. She obtained my PhD from the University of Bamberg, Germany, and previously held a postdoctoral position at the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her research interests include the making of (EU) public policy and the mechanisms and effects of Europeanisation. Her research has appeared as a monograph with Routledge and as articles in Governance, Journal of European Integration, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, Politics & Governance and Regulation & Governance. Next to conducting research on a diverse set of EU policies, she has taught courses on EU policy making and has also regularly worked in political education contexts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nicolas Bicchi<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

PhD candidate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Bicchi is a PhD student in the department of political & social sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, under the supervision of Prof. Javier Arregui. His main research areas are legislative bargaining and elite behaviour in the European Union\u2019s institutions and the effect of automation on the European political landscape. He holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Leeds and a Research Master\u2019s in International Relations from the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hakan Yapar<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

PhD candidate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hakan Yapar is a PhD candidate in the Politics, Policies and International Relations (PPIR) program at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where he is also working for the EUBUSINESS project. His areas of research interest include European politics, political economy, and public opinion. He obtained a master\u2019s degree in Geopolitics and Strategic Studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science and international Relations at Bah\u00e7e\u015fehir University. He has previously worked for research institutes, development agencies and international organisations at various capacities. For more information, you can see LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Clara March Ard\u00e9vol<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

PhD candidate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clara March is a PhD candidate affiliated with the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Her research examines the governance of long-term care policies, focusing on issues of quality of care, trust, and accountability in public service provision, particularly in the context of nursing home services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She holds two BA degrees in Political Science and Public Management, and in Sociology from the UAB. She also obtained a master\u2019s degree in Social Intervention in Knowledge Societies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriel Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

PhD candidate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel Rodr\u00edguez Molina is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he also works as a research assistant on the EUBUSINESS project. He previously collaborated as a research assistant at the Complutense Institute of Administrative Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He obtained a Bachelor\u2019s degree in International Relations (2022) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master\u2019s degree in Computational Social Sciences (2024) from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research interests include European politics, political economy, data politics, and interest groups. For more information, you can see: LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Yannis Karagiannis<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>  (external collaborator)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yannis Karagiannis is Associate Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), where he is also the convener of the research cluster on Globalization and Public Policy, and the coordinator of the Master’s in Public Policy. Previously he worked at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence, Italy), the University of Exeter (UK), the Institute for Advanced Studies (Viena, Austria), and ESADE (Barcelona, Spain). His research interests include (a) the politics of competition policy and market liberalization; (b) the theory of incentives applied to public policy, political science, and international relations; (c) processes of Europeanization and of international policy diffusion; and (d) the relationship between intellectuals and nationalism. His research has appeared in European Union Politcs<\/em>, the Journal of Common Market Studies<\/em>, the Journal of European Public Policy<\/em>, the Review of International Organizations<\/em>, the European Political Science Review<\/em>, etc.    <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Lanaia (external collaborator)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Lanaia (PhD) is a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB). His main areas of expertise are energy and climate change policies. His doctoral thesis was on the implementation of EU energy and climate policies in Spain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cristina Ares Castro-Conde<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (external collaborator)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Public Administration, and a master’s degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges. She has completed her training at other academic institutions, such as the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the Hertie School (Jacques Delors Centre) and the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Colleen Boland<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (external collaborator)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Postdoctoral Researcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Boland is postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University’s Centre for Migration Law, where her principal research line as part of the Radboud University Network on Migrant Inclusion (RUNOMI) is examining labor integration and digitalization in Europe from a gender and intersectional perspective (primarily in Spain and the Netherlands). Previously, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, she interim coordinated the EU Horizon2020 ITFLOWS (IT Tools and Methods for Managing Migration Flows) project, in addition to research duties relating to mixed migration flows to Europe since the start of the project. She also coordinated \u00abGendered crimmigration discourse and practices: Catalan case and multilevel governance potential\u00bb funded by the Institut Catal\u00e0 Internacional per la Pau, and engaged in the project, \u00abCrimmigration in Europe: Compounded Dilution of Asylum-seekers\u2019 and Women\u2019s Human Rights\u00bb as a 2021-2022 reconstitution Fellow (a Forum Transregionale Studien and Democracy Reporting International program funded by Stiftung Mercator). Earlier research addressed identity construction among youth of migrant origin, as well as aspirational outcomes and experiences of discrimination, with a particular focus on European Muslim youth. Current research interests include EU refugee and migration flows and integration within broader international migration studies and diversity management.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Noferini<\/strong><\/strong> (external collaborator)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Teaching staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Noferini is an Italian researcher living and working in Barcelona since 2003. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universit\u00e1 degli Studi di Firenze and a MA in Political Science from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and collaborates with the CEI, International Affairs, where he is responsible for the preparation to the diplomatic career in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2012, he has also been an affiliated professor at IBEI, where he teaches courses on the European Union and public policies.

His research interests focus on public policies, with a particular emphasis on multilevel governance in the context of EU policy-making and transnational governance. Some of his recent research analyses territorial cooperation (macro and euroregions), cohesion policy, development cooperation, international relations, sustainability and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. He has participated in several projects for different organisations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the European Commission, the Spanish Agency for Cooperation and Development, as well as public administrations at national, regional and local levels.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marie-T\u00e9r\u00e8se Wilhelm<\/strong><\/strong> (external collaborator)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

PhD candidate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e9se is a PhD candidate in the Political and Social Sciences Department at UPF, focusing on the implementation of European environmental legislation. She holds two BA degrees in Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy and French, with minor degree in Philosophy from James Madison College at Michigan State University. Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se obtained her Master\u2019s degree in European and International Relations from Centre International de Formation Europ\u00e9en. She has studied in the United States, France, England, Germany, and the Netherlands. Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se has also worked with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the Policies and Standards Branch as an Individual Consultant, and  holds the qualification of Policy Officer in European and International Organizations recognized by the French state (level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Albert Batlle Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albert Batlle holds an MA in European Integration Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where his thesis examined the future of EU Cohesion Policy in the aftermath of the Recovery and Resilience Facility. He also earned a BA in International Relations from the same university and is currently pursuing an MA in Economic History. His academic interests focus on the development of the European distributive policies and on militarist attitudes. He is currently assisting the EUGOV Research Group.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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