The MPC’s team includes a multi-disciplinary group of academic researchers and administrative staff. Our ‘MPC Associates’ are based within the wider EUI or at other research institutions.
Academic Staff
Ingrid Boas
Visiting Fellow
Leiza Brumat
Research Fellow
Tel. +39 055 4685 547
Fields of interest: migration policies and policymaking, free movement of persons, regional integration, regionalism. Geographic areas: South America, North America, Europe.
Tiziana Caponio
Marie Curie Fellow
Fields of interest: Migration policy, local policies, multilevel governance, immigrant integration
Sergio Carrera
Part-time Professor
Fields of interest: Migration, Asylum, Schengen, Citizenship and Integration laws and policies in the European Union
James Dennison
Part-time Professor
Tel. +39 055 4685 885
Fields of interest: Public attitudes, social scientific methods, political behaviour
Lenka Dražanová
Research Associate
Tel. +39 055 4685 707
Fields of interest: public opinion and attitudes, attitudes formation, comparative political behaviour and quantitative methods
Andrew Geddes
Professor and Director of the MPC
Tel. +39 055 4685 785
Fields of interest: Migration policy and politics, regional migration governance, global migration governance
Leila Hadj Abdou
Research Fellow
Tel. +39 055 4685 604
Fields of interest: international migration governance, immigrant integration and immigration/asylum policies, populist radical right, social movements
Mauro Lanati
Research Fellow
Tel. +39 055 4685 889
Fields of interest: Determinants of Migration, Foreign Aid, International Trade
Mehari Taddele Maru
Part-time Professor
Fields of interest: migration and human rights, peace and security, law and governance
Letizia Palumbo
Visiting Fellow
Fields of interest: Migration, trafficking, labour exploitation, gender and human rights
Ettore Recchi
Part-time Professor
Tel. +39 055 4685 825
Fields of interest: mobilities, migration, transnationalism, Europe
Martin Ruhs
Professor and Deputy Director of the MPC
Tel. +39 055 4685 847
Fields of interest: Economics and politics of international migration
Gabriella Sanchez
Research Fellow
Tel. +39 055 4685 782
Fields of interest: migrant smuggling, human trafficking, border security, illicit markets, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking
Alina Vrânceanu
Research Fellow
Fields of interest: Public opinion, political behaviour, political representation, comparative politics, quantitative research methods
MPC Associates
Emanuel Deutschmann
Associate
Tel. +39 055 4685 538
Fields of interest: social networks, transnational mobility and communication, regional integration, globalization, migration, social stratification
Elias Dinas
Associate
Lorenzo Gabrielli
Associate
Alessandra Venturini
Associate
Tel. +39 055 4685 733
Fields of interest: Economics, effect of migration in destination and in the sending countries
Carolina V. Zuccotti
Short-term Visitor
Tel. +39 055 4685 848
Fields of interest: Social Inequality and Social Stratification; Migration and Ethnicity; Urban Sociology
Administrative Staff
Web Unit
Former Professors, Research Associates and Fellows
