PhD Career Destinations
Discover the research and career destinations of our recent European Institute PhD graduates below.
2026
Dr Yonatan Levi
Destination: Associate Editor & Research Fellow, Berl Katznelson Foundation; Research Fellow, Molad – The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy
Expertise: Europe, European Union, Politics, Populism, Political behaviour, Social identity, Israel, USA
Thesis: Essays on right-wing populism in Israel – and the resistance to it
Supervisors: Jonathan White & Abby Innes
2025
Dr Virginia Crespi De Valldaura
Destination: Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
Expertise: Financialisation, Social democracy, European welfare states, Comparative political economy
Supervisors: Jonathan Hopkin & Tasha Fairfield
Dr Chris Bick
Destination: Senior Research Fellow, Democracy and Politics at the Institute for Public Policy Research
Expertise: Party Politics, Democracy and Capitalism, Ideas and Politics
Thesis: Ruling the informational void: ideational infrastructure and party democracy in the United Kingdom
Supervisors: Abby Innes & Jonathan Hopkin
Dr Friedrich Püttmann
Destination: Guest Lecturer, Sciences Po; Policy Adviser & Liaison Officer, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Europe
Expertise: Turkey, Migration, Kosovo, Islam in Europe, German Policy-making
Thesis: Boundaries of brotherhood: Syrian refugee reception and national identity contestation in Turkey
Supervisors: Yaprak Gürsoy
2024
Dr Tommaso Crescioli
Destination: Research Fellow, Bocconi University
Expertise: Political Economy, Market Power, Voting Behavior, Competition Policy
Supervisors: Waltraud Schelkle & Angelo Martelli
Dr Jacob Lypp
Destination: Fellow in International Migration, LSE European Institute
Expertise: Political Sociology: Migration, Citizenship, Religion & Qualitative Methods
Thesis: A Spiritual State: Civil Education, Christianity, and the Governance of Islam in Germany
Supervisors: Jonathan White & Esra Özyürek
Dr Michael Cottakis
Destination: CEO, 89 Global
Expertise: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial imaginaries, Port cities, Greece, Turkey
Supervisors: Kevin Featherstone and Saul Estrin
2023
Dr. Sarah Ciaglia
Economist, Public Sector
Expertise: Fiscal Policy
Supervisors: Kevin Featherstone & Paul De Grauwe
2022
Dr Antonio Barroso
Senior Geoeconomics Analyst, Bloomberg, and Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po Paris
Expertise: International Political Economy, EU Politics, Comparative Political Economy, Political Risk
Thesis: Essays on the Two-Level Political Economy of Eurozone Crisis Conditionality
Supervisors: Kevin Featherstone & Jonathan Hopkin
Dr Michael Hume
Partner and Head of Strategy and Research, MKP Capital Management LLC
Expertise: Global and European Financial imbalances and crises
Thesis: Essays on the crisis of monetary union
Supervisors: Paul De Grauwe & Waltraud Schelkle
Dr Toon Van Overbeke
Assistant Professor of Europe, Climate and Digital Society, Maastricht University
Expertise: Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Knowledge Economy
Supervisors: Bob Hancké & Saul Estrin
Dr Dustin Voss
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Expertise: Comparative political economy, Growth models, Financialisation
Thesis: The Political Economy of Finance in Germany: Actors, Coalitions, Institutions, and Power in Times of Global Financial Integration
Supervisors: Bob Hancké & Jonathan Hopkin
2021
Dr Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Oxford
Expertise: Comparative political economy, Collective action, Politics of place
Supervisors: Bob Hancké & Vassilis Monastiriotis
Dr Fabian Mushövel
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, European University Institute
Expertise: Comparative Political Economy, Welfare States, Inequality and Redistribution, European Integration and Institutions, Technological Change
Supervisors: Waltraud Schelkle & Paul De Grauwe
2020
Dr Angelos Angelou
Teaching Fellow, University of Neapolis
Expertise: European Commission, crisis-management, economic governance, public policy
Thesis: Swimming against the tide: the European Commission and the politics of debt-relief
Supervisors: Kevin Featherstone & David Woodruff
Dr Diane Bolet
Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour, University of Essex
Expertise: Political Behaviour, Comparative Politics, Far right politics, Western Europe
Thesis: "All politics is local": how local context explains radical right voting
Supervisors: Sara Hobolt & Simon Hix
Dr Sebastian Diessner
Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Expertise: European political economy and public policy
Thesis: Essays in the political economy of central banking
Supervisors: Paul De Grauwe & Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Dr Katerina Glyniadaki
Lecturer, University of Southampton
Expertise: Migration, Public policy, Representative & street-level bureaucracy
Thesis: Migration policy in practice: identity conflicts and discretionary decisions at the front lines
Supervisors: Martin Lodge & Esra Özyürek
Dr Hjalte Lokdam
Senior Business Analyst, Kearney
Expertise: Corporate strategy, Finance, Central banking
Thesis: Banking on sovereignty: a genealogy of the European central bank’s independence
Supervisors: Jonathan White & Michael Wilkinson
Dr Marta Lorimer
Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University
Expertise: Far right, Political ideologies, Euroscepticsm, Differentiated integration
Supervisors: Jonathan White & Roger Eatwell