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
Julia Leventon is a PhD candidate interested in the interactions between science, society and governance. Her position at CEU is supported by AquaTRAIN, a Marie Curie Research Training Network) under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU.
Through her PhD, Julia is examining implementation gaps in EU policy. The work draws on evidence from a case study of the management of groundwater with high levels of geogenic arsenic in Hungary.
Elena B. Stavrevska is a PhD Candidate at the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies, where she also earned her M.A. degree with a final thesis entiteled "EU Intelligence-Sharing: The British Quid Pro Quo?" Her current research focuses on the durability of liberal democratic peace processes in post-conflict societies following a major multilateral peacebuilding mission, shedding light on the impact of the level of local decision-making autonomy and grassroots peacebuilding activities. The title of her project is "Peacebuilding Missions' Impact on Liberal Democratic Peace Durability: What Role for Decision-Making Autonomy and Grassroots Peacebuilding?" The project is supervised by Professor Michael Merlingen and Professor John Shattuck.
Tom Glaser retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in 2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and, since 1993, with the enlargement process.His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million. He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.
Márton is a PhD candidate at the International Relations and European Studies Department of Central European University. In the course of his doctoral research, Márton studies cosmopolitan theories and the notion of trasncendence of national citizenship in the light of the case of Roma, an allegedly non-territorial nation.
Márton holds an MA of International Relations and Economics (Budapest University of Economic Sciences) and a DEA of Relations Internationales (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). He has been a visiting fellow at the Sociology Department of Yale University, the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, and the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Márton's research interests include: theories of cosmopolitan democracy, global civil society, transnational social movements, international politics of multiculturalism, the Romani movement.
Thomas Fetzer joins the department in December 2009. He received his Ph D from the Department of History at the European University Institute Florence in October 2005 with a thesis on British and German trade union politics at Ford and General Motors since the late 1960s. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne and taught in several programs of US-based universities in Florence. In 2007 and 2008 Thomas was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, and in 2009 he was Assistant Professor for Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and also Visiting Lecturer at CEU.
Petra Bárd is Researcher at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine where she is participating in various European Union financed projects investigating the legal framework of biobanks. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Hungarian Europe Society, and of Alpbach Hungary. She lectures EU-law and human rights related subjects at CEU and at the Ecole supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA). In her writings she primarily addresses European constitutionalism, human rights in the European Union, the rights of persons living with disabilities, and judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters. Petra Bárd is a CEU alumna; she received her LL.M. in international business law in 2001, and was awarded her S.J.D. in the field of comparative constitutional law in 2008.
Stefan is a PhD Candidate at CEU. His academic interests are in international relations theory and development policy, development aid, international negotiations, and state building in sub-Saharan Africa. He is focusing in his research on the functionality of Western institutions in non-Western areas and more specifically on development aid negotiations. Stefan received a BA in Political Science and a BA in Law after studying at “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; “1st of December 1918” University, Alba Iulia, Romania; University of Salzburg, Austria and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Stefan holds an MA in Public Policy from Central European University.
