PhD Supervisors
Discover below our list of potential PhD supervisors and postdoctoral fellowship mentors at the European Institute.
Professor Chris Anderson
Research interests: Political Science; Public Opinion; Elections; Political Economy; European Integration; Germany
Dr Robert Basedow
Research interests: International Trade; Investment Arbitration; Regulatory Cooperation; International Investment Agreements; Dispute Settlement Mechanisms; Judicial Politics
Dr Ben Braun (as co-supervisor only)
Research interests: International and comparative political economy
Professor Paul de Grauwe
Research interests: International Monetary Relations; Monetary Integration; Theory and Empirical Analysis of the Foreign-Exchange Markets; Open-economy Macroeconomics
Dr Donato Di Carlo (as co-supervisor only)
Research interests: Comparative Political Economy; Economic Governance; Industrial Policy
Dr Spyros Economides
Research interests: Comparative Political Economy; Economic Governance; Industrial Policy
Professor Simon Glendinning
Research interests: Philosophy of Europe; Philosophy of European Union; Philosophy of History; European Philosophy
Professor Yaprak Gürsoy
Research interests: Comparative Politics; International Relations, Turkish Politics; Regime Change; Democratization; Civil-Military Relations; Coups d’État; Southern Europe; Anglo-Turkish Relations
Professor Jonathan Hopkin
Research interests: Political Economy, Political Parties, Inequality
Dr Abby Innes
Research interests: Political economy of Central Europe; Political economy of the state in emerging markets and advanced capitalist economies; Comparative materialist utopias; Soviet economics; Neoclassical economics; Political economy of the Soviet Union; Political economy of neoliberalism; Varieties of capitalism; Financialization; Political economy of the green transition
Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece
Research interests: European Security; Multiculturalism; Nationalism; Identity Politics
Dr Mareike Kleine
Research interests: European integration; Domestic institutions; Global governance; International politics; International trade; Legitimacy
Professor Denisa Kostovicova
Research interests: Transitional Justice; Conflict Processes; Civil Society; Post-conflict Reconstruction; Balkans
Dr Angelo Martelli (as co-supervisor only)
Research interests: Political Economy; Labour Markets; Structural Reforms; Future of Work; Knowledge Economy; Migration
Professor Vassilis Monastiriotis
Research interests: Industrial policy, economic restructuring and growth at the national and regional levels; Labour market policy / regulation, wages, unemployment and labour market inequalities; EU conditionality and the political economy of reforms
Dr Miguel Pereira
Research interests: European Politics; Elite Behavior; Political Representation; Experimental Methods; Policy Diffusion; Corruption
Dr Eiko Thielemann
Research interests: European Union; Asylum; Comparative Politics and Policy; Immigration; International Co-operation (burden sharing); Migration
Dr António Valentim (as co-supervisor only)
Research interests: Environmental Politics; Climate Politics; European Politics; Political Behaviour; Elite Behaviour
Dr. Niina Vuolajärvi (as co-supervisor only)
Research interests: Migration and Border Studies; Sex Work & Critical Trafficking Research; Law & Policy; Feminist Studies; Ethnography & Qualitative Methods
Professor Jonathan White
Research interests: Democracy; Emergency Politics; Technocracy; Populism; Politics of Left and Right; Political Theory