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
Born in 1975 in Pécs, Hungary. After graduation from the University of Pécs in 2003 I was started to work as a teacher. I left for studying in England in 2004 and received my MA degree (2006) in European Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, with a dissertation on the cultural influences on fourth century Sopianae in Pannonia. Between 2006 and 2008 I was working in rescue archaeology. I am currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Central European University, Budapest.
Jessica Jewell is a PhD student at CEU interested in national energy security strategies, risk and uncertainty analysis of future energy systems, and mitigating risk in energy system transitions. In addition to her studies, she is a contributing author to the Global Energy Assessment. Prior to coming to CEU she completed the Erasmus Mundus program Masters program in Environmental Sciences Policy and Management during which time she studied at CEU, Lund University, and University of the Aegean. Before her current work in Energy and the Environment, she studied graduate from Brown University with a degree in Geology and worked as a geologist at a consulting engineering firm.
Eszter has a Masters Degree in Economics (with specialization in International Relations, European integration) from Corvinus Universiy, Budapest and a Diploma from Diplomatic Academy, Vienna. Research interests: European Union Politics, democratic deficit in the EU.
Manuel has a BA in International Relations from the University of Timisoara (Romania) and an MA in International Relations from CEU. His research interests are EU foreign policy, European security, EU-Russia relations, IR theory, critical and poststructuralist theories applied to IR (identity, territoriality, borders), political sociology, political theory, legitimacy issues in the EU, international migration.
Raluca Csernatoni’s research interests include topics in International Relations Theory and Security Studies, sub-focusing on the problematic of security policy making, the interconnections between internal and external security, and the international political order post-9/11; and in European Union Studies, concentrating on the European Union’s (EU) new security challenges and policy developments within the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). In her PhD research, she aims to analyze the underpinning institutional condition (temporal, material, and normative) that have pioneered a European defence program in the EU, and to trace the evolutionary dynamics in the defence dimension that led to the creation of the European Defence Agency (EDA).
Viktor received his MA in International Studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research focuses on the borderland between political philosophy and international political theory. Viktor’s main interest lies in the ethics and logic of the use of violence in international and national politics and their relation to the emergence and sustenance of political order, a topic approached in his research project through the concept of sovereignty.
