Our network is led by Marianna Lovato (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Ana Juncos (University of Bristol) and Heidi Maurer (Danube University Krems). Franziska Petri (KU Leuven), Óscar Fernandez (IBEI) and Carlos Bravo-Laguna (Hebrew University) are part of the coordination team.
Dr Marianna Lovato is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), where she is currently working on the ERC project SINATRA (Sino-American Competition and European Strategic Autonomy). She obtained her PhD from University College Dublin. She holds an MPhil in European Politics from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Science from SciencesPo Paris. Her research interests revolve around European foreign policy, CFSP/CSDP, informality in international cooperation, and qualitative methods. Marianna’s research has appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy.
Ana E. Juncos is Professor of European Politics at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol (UK). She holds a PhD in Politics, International Relations and European Studies from Loughborough University. Her research focuses on EU foreign and security policy, with a particular interest on issues of conflict prevention, peacebuilding and resilience. Between 2015-2018, she was Coordinator of the EU-funded project ‘Preventing and responding to conflict: developing EU Civilian Capabilities for a sustainable peace (EU-CIVCAP)’. She is author of EU Foreign and Security Policy in Bosnia: The Politics of Coherence and Effectiveness (Manchester University Press, 2013) and co-editor of EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management (Routledge, 2011). She has published articles in high-ranking journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Cooperation and Conflict. She is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of European Integration.
Dr Heidi Maurer is a researcher at the Danube University Krems, Visiting Professor in European Diplomacy at the College of Europe in Bruges and Associate Fellow at GLOBSEC Bratislava. Her research focuses on European foreign policy cooperation, European diplomacy and the international role of the EU. She engaged with relational approaches for her Marie Curie project EuroDipl: European Diplomacy Practices post-Lisbon: Adding Value through Cooperation.
Dr Carlos Bravo-Laguna is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He just concluded his PhD at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). His doctoral thesis examines the role and weight of the European Union in the management of external crises. Carlos has been a visiting fellow at the University of Konstanz, the University of Tübingen, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests cover the study of governance, crisis management, European Integration, regulation, and networks. His work has been published in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management as well as the Journal of European Integration.
Óscar Fernández is a PhD candidate in the program Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, under the supervision of Dr. Robert Kissack. He obtained a predoctoral contract from the H2020 research project ENGAGE (Envisioning a New Governance Architecture for a Global Europe). His fields of interest are the European Union’s external action, global health governance, international security, and conflict management. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Pompeu Fabra University, a Master’s degree in Advanced European and International Studies from the Centre International de Formation Européenne, and a Master’s degree in Internationalization from the University of Barcelona. Prior to joining IBEI, he was senior researcher at the EsadeGeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics.
Dr Franziska Petri works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven. Within the Horizon Europe project ENSURED, she studies global governance, the EU’s support to international institutions, and the dynamics of multilateralism in climate and biodiversity. Her PhD project focused on the role of EU Delegations in EU climate and energy diplomacy. Her broader research interests include European foreign policy, EU climate and energy policy/diplomacy, EU inter-institutional relations, European enlargement and neighbourhood policies, European referendums and international norm contestation. Franziska studied at Heidelberg University, Sciences Po Paris and KU Leuven, and received her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science from Heidelberg University.
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