Profiles of CEU Researchers
Research at CEU takes place in an environment committed to creativity and academic excellence. CEU’s international faculty come from over 30 countries and conduct their research in both Academic Departments and university’s own internationally-recognized Research Centers. This is a directory of selected CEU researchers: both faculty members and PhD students.
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Gedion T. Hessebon received his LLB (2007) from the Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Law and his LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law (2009) from CEU. He had served as a graduate assistant and assistant lecturer in the Addis Ababa University School of Law before joining the CEU as an S.J.D student. He has been admitted to the doctoral program of the Legal Studies Department in 2010. The focus of his dissertation will be on the contextualization of constitutionalism in Africa.
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Associate ProfessorHe returned to Hungary from a tenure track position at the University of Chicago. His main interests are asymptotic group theory, graph limits and ergodic theory. He leads the MTA Renyi "Lendulet" Groups and Graphs Research Group at the MTA Renyi Institute.
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Assistant ProfessorGuntra Aistara is co-founder of the Environmental and Social Justice Action Research Group, and previously directed the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Program at CENSE. Her PhD research focused on the development of organic agriculture movements in the culturally, ecologically, and politically diverse contexts of Latvia and Costa Rica. Her current research interests include small farmer strategies for resilience in the face of climate change and economic crisis, the intersection of permaculture principles and practices with traditional knowledge, and movements for seed sovereignty and environmental justice.
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Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor of Management and International BusinessYusaf Akbar joined the CEU Business School as an associate professor of Management and International Business in 2006.
Yusaf has taught at universities and business schools all over the world, including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen’s University, Canada, European Business School, London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro. His main research interests are international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe, and non-market strategies of emerging-market multinationals.
Current research projects focus on market escalation of small entrepreneurial firms in emerging markets and conceptual boundaries and relationships between different forms of innovation i.e. social innovation, disruptive and reverse innovation.
He has also recently authored case studies on Zwack Unicum (with CEU Alumna Ilona Polyak), Datwyler (with CEU Alumnus Pieter Coppens), Vienna International Airport and the Hummus Bar.
He is Founding Editor of the International Journal of Emerging Markets and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Management. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of World Business, Business and Politics, Global Governance, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, Thunderbird International Business Review and World Competition.
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Assistant ProfessorEmel Akçali graduated in International Relations at both the American University (Paris, BA) and at the Université de Galatasaray (Istanbul, MA). She obtained her PhD in Political Geography at Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her current research interests cover social movements, upheavals and (trans-)formation of collective identities in the age of globalisation and Europeanisation, the state, society and politics in the Middle East, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and critical realist philosophy.
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Jenna studied at the University of Hamburg/Germany, where she received her diploma degree in political science and political economy with distinction. Her diploma thesis explored "German Migration Policy in the World System" (supervisor: Antje Wiener). She has worked in public relations in the private and public sector in Germany and as a research assistant at the Centre for Globalization and Governance, Hamburg.
Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the IRES department/IR track. Her main research interests include migration & mobility, world-society, neo-institutionalism, migration policy, multi-level governance, immigration & integration, and the structure-agency-nexus. Her PhD dissertation investigates the role of inter-organizational relations in the formation of migration policies.
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Thiago Amparo is a lawyer with a Bachelor degree in Law from the Pontifical University of São Paulo, Brazil (2007). He also completed his LLM in Human Rights with distinction from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (2010-2011), with a specialization in International Justice, awarded with a fellowship from the Open Society Justice Initiative.
After working with civil law litigation at the Law Firm Demarest & Almeida (2004) and later with academic research on constitutional law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (2005-2006), he worked at Conectas Human Rights (www.conectas.org), leading international human rights NGO based in Brazil, from 2006-2012, with international human rights law and politics, advocacy at the United Nations level, as well as capacity-building and research on human rights in the Global South. He has been member of the Executive Board of the Sur – International Journal on Human Rights (www.surjournal.org), published by Conectas.
His main areas of interest are: discrimination law, foreign policy and human rights, comparative constitutional law on minority rights, and international human rights law and mechanisms. He was admitted to SJD program at Central European University in 2012.
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Renira is a PhD candidate in political economy. She has a Master of Science in political economy from BI Norwegian School of Management and a BA in political science and economics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Additionally, she has been an exchange student at the University of California, Berkeley. Research interests include politics of corporate governance, political economy of CEO compensation, business and politics, economic- financial and business history, varieties of capitalism
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Energy modeling researcher