She is a first year Ph.D student in Political Science, Dept. of International Relations and European Studies (IRES) at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She received her B.A in International Relations in Turkey. After receiving her MA degree in EU Studies from Dokuz Eylul University Turkey she has been awarded with full master scholarship by Swedish Institute to get her M.Sc degree in European Affairs at Lund University. During her master studies she has worked as an intern at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) for 3 months and undertaken a research about legal and non-legal aspects of Europeanisation process in Turkey with a special focus on political actors. She has temporarily worked in national and international projects and participated to several international conferences. For her Ph. D project she is working on Europeanisation and politics of EU norm promotion in Turkey with a special focus on political elites
Achim Kemmerling holds a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin. Before coming to CEU he worked at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Jacobs University Bremen and the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. His research interests include the political economy of social and labour market policies, taxation and development.
His research interest is primarily in voting behaviour and democratic institutions, and particularly the impact of the former on the latter. He is also interested in public opinion, survey methodology, and East European politics. He is co-author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999), author or co-author of over five dozen articles on electoral behaviour, public opinion, political parties and democratic consolidation in edited volumes, political science and sociology journals.
Gonzalo Torres is a PhD Candidate in political science at Central European University in Budapest. His research explores the political performance of LGBT organisations in Central Eastern Europe, in a comparative study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Gonzalo holds a Masters degree in political science and a postgraduate certificate in political communication from CEU, and a BSc (hons) in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Gonzalo is currently a visiting researcher at the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Gergo holds an MA in International Studies (2005) from Corvinus University of Budapest and a post-graduate master’s degree in International Business Economics (2006) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). In 2005, he received the Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Council of National Scientific Student’s Association of Hungary. He is a Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Studies and a member of the Political Economy Research Group at CEU. Since September 2009 he also works at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a junior research fellow. He writes his PhD on the patterns of uneven regional development in postsocialist Central Europe.
Bojana Kocijan is a PhD candidate at Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) at the Department of Political Science. Her research investigates the issue of government failures and successes with a view on what impact this may have on the quality of young democracies. Her disertation is supervised by Dr. Andras Bozoki of CEU. Before the admission to the doctoral program at CEU, Bojana worked as the expert associate with the Agency for Mobility and EU programs in Zagreb, Croatia. Bojana holds MA in Political Science from California State University, Northridge (2005) and LLM from School of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia (2002). In her spare time, Bojana writes poetry.
