Visiting researchers

The CES welcomes European Studies scholars to join its ranks as a visiting researcher. Below you can find a list of our current and previous visiting researchers. If you are interested in this possibility, please contact the CES director or approach the researchers you wish to cooperate with during your visit.
Current visiting researchers
Alice Dechamps, 20.10.-20.12.2025

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles

Research projects:

  • Evidence use and contestation in environmental policymaking at the EU Parliament: a discursive approach

Expertise and research interests: 

  • Expertise and evidence-based policymaking
  • EU institutions and governance
  • EU Parliament and political groups
  • EU environmental policies
  • Marine and biodiversity policies
Lina Klymenko, 1.8.-31.12.2025

Docent, International Relations (Tampere University), Public Policy (University of Eastern Finland)

Research projects:

  • The Language of War: Historical Analogies in Ukraine’s Resistance to the Russian Aggression

Expertise and research interests:

  • International Relations

  • International Politics of Memory

  • Political Language and Foreign Policy

  • Ukrainian and Eastern European Studies

  • Interpretive Methodologies

  • Teaching and Learning Politics


 

Previous visiting researchers
Nuo Cheng, 2024-2025

Doctoral researcher, Nanjing University

Research projects:

  • A Comparative Study of the Codification History of Chinese and Roman Codes from the Third to the Fifth Centuries (China Scholarship Council 2024-2025)

Expertise and research interests:

  • Roman Law
  • Comparative Legal History
Lucrecia Rubio Grundell, 2024

Postdoctoral fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Research projects:

  • Principal Investigator for OppGen+EU: "Opposition to Gender+ Equality in Europe and the role of the EU: A Case Study Analysis"

Expertise and research interests:

  • European Union Gender Equality and LGBTI Policies
  • Anti-Gender and Far-Right Populist Opposition to Gender Equality and LGBTI Rights in the EU
  • Intra-Feminist Debates: Prostitution, Surrogacy and Trans Rights

Violette Mens, 2024

Doctoral researcher, Philipps Universität Marburg

Research projects:

  • VORTEX (Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism)

Expertise and research interests:

  • Radicalisation
  • Deradicalisation
  • Knowledge production
  • Epistemic communities
  • European studies

Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, 2023 & 2024

Associate Professor in Human Rights Studies, Lund University

Docent, Social and Cultural Anthropology (Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä), International Law (University of Turku)

Research projects:

  • Book project ‘Looping for Human Rights: An Ethnographic Theory of Expansion’ (2023-2024, funder Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
  • Book project ‘Movement in the Rights Direction: An Ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee’

Expertise and research interests:

  • Contemporary Human Rights Phenomenon
  • History of Human Rights
  • Ethnography of International organizations, expertise and bureaucracy
  • UN human rights monitoring


 

Katri Eeva, 2023-2024

Postdoctoral researcher, Tampere University 

DPhil Oxford 

Research projects:

  • Transnational Knowledge Networks in Higher Education Policymaking (Research Council of Finland 2021-2025, Tampere University) 

Expertise and research interests: 

  • European union and education policy: actors, institutions, and policy instruments
  • Europeanisation of education
  • Higher education policymaking and governance
  • Education policy networks and knowledge politics

Mikko Immanen, 2023

See introduction in the


 

Filippo Incontro, 2023 

Doctoral researcher, Comparative and European Legal Studies, University of Trento

History of Roman Law 

Expertise and research interests: 

  • Legal history 

  • Roman law 

  • Classical archaeology 

  • Ancient history 

  • Roman Epigraphy

  • North Africa 

  • Land law