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
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.
Sergio Carrera
Visiting Fellow
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 Fellow
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
Part-Time Assistant Professor
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
Martin Ruhs
Professor and Deputy Director of the MPC
Tel. +39 055 4685 847
Fields of interest: Economics and politics of international migration
Alina Vrânceanu
Research Fellow
Fields of interest: Public opinion, political behaviour, political representation, comparative politics, quantitative research methods
MPC Associates
Emanuel Deutschmann
MPC Associate
Tel. +39 055 4685 538
Fields of interest: social networks, transnational mobility and communication, regional integration, globalization, migration, social stratification
Elias Dinas
MPC Associate
Lorenzo Gabrielli
MPC Associate
Rezart Hoxhaj
MPC Associate
Alessandra Venturini
MPC Associate
Tel. +39 055 4685 733
Fields of interest: Economics, effect of migration in destination and in the sending countries
Carolina V. Zuccotti
MPC Associate
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
