CES affiliates

CES affiliates are researchers of European Studies at the University of Helsinki or have close collaboration with the CES.  If you are interested in becoming a CES research affiliate, you can contact the CES director for more information.
Annastiina Kallius

Postdoctoral researcher

Ongoing projects:

  • Project "2020-luvun kilpailevat Eurooppa-visiot illiberaalin ja liberaalin tiedontuotannon valossa" (Emil Aaltonen Foundation 2024-2026)

Expertise and research interests:

  • Social anthropology and ethnography
  • Epistemology
  • Liberalism and illiberalism
  • Fascism
  • Europe and EU politics
  • Migration

Email: annastiina.kallius(a)helsinki.fi
Barbara Gaweda

Postdoctoral researcher

Expertise and research interests:

  • Gender politics in East-Central Europe
  • Gender equality policy
  • Intersectionality
  • Social rights and policies in Europe
  • Politics of sexualities
  • Nationalism and post-state socialism

Email: barbara.gaweda(a)helsinki.fi
Laura Nordström

PhD in Political Science 

BA in Humanities

Ongoing research projects:

  • Seeing Like a Tech Firm: Advocacy in the Era of Platform Capitalism ()

Expertise and research interests:

  • EU decision-making and institutions
  • Study of power
  • European economic governance
  • Global political economy
  • Lobbying
  • The power of expert knowledge
  • Technology policy
  • Interest groups
  • Think tanks
  • European banking and debt crisis

Sähköposti: laura.nordstrom(a)helsinki.fi
William King

Core Fellow (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

PhD in International History (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Ongoing research projects:

  • Petitioning the Parliament: The European Parliament, Democracy, and Citizens, 1973-99

Expertise and research interests:

  • European integration
  • British history
  • Political history
  • Democracy

Email: william.king(a)helsinki.fi
Johanna Vuorelma

University researcher

Ongoing research projects:

  • Irony in international politics (2021-2025)
  • (WELGO, 2021-2024)
  • , Sotilaallisen vallan kieli suomalaisessa demokratiassa (2022-2026)

Email: johanna.vuorelma(a)helsinki.fi
Manuel Müller

Non-Resident Fellow (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

Editor of

PhD in Philosophy

Expertise and research interests:

  • EU institutions and institutional reform
  • Supranational democracy
  • Elections and political parties in Europe
  • European public sphere
  • Narratives on the purpose of European integration

Email: manuel.mueller(a)foederalist.eu
Anna Elomäki

Docent, Doctor of Philosophy

University of Tampere, Faculty of Social Sciences

Ongoing research projects:

  • Academy Research Fellow Project

Expertise and research interests:

  • Feminist political economy
  • European Union
  • Economic policy
  • Equality policy
  • Gender-responsive budgeting
  • Decision-making processes
  • Feminist political ecology

Email: anna.elomaki(a)uni.fi
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen

University Lecturer

University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Ongoing research projects:

Expertise and research interests:

  • Political thought
  • Democratic theory
  • Ecological transformation
  • Resilience
  • Conspiracy theories
  • Use of expert knowledge in politics
  • Post‑truth politics

Email: ari-elmeri.hyvonen(a)helsinki.fi