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Dr. Isabelle Albert is an Assistant Professor at the University of Luxembourg in the Institute for Lifespan Development, Family and Culture. She studied psychology at the Universities of the Saarland (Germany), Bologna (Italy) and Trier (Germany), and she received her PhD degree from the University of Konstanz (Germany) in the framework of the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary “Value of Children”-Project .
Her main research interests are in the field of (cross-)cultural, life-span developmental and family psychology. She has made major contributions to the areas of transgenerational family relations and transmission of values, cultural diversity, identity and belonging in the context of migration and ageing. She is a consortium member of the key research area Migration and Inclusive Societies (MIS) .

Yousef is researching refugee education and social care at the Rees Centre, Department of Education, University of Oxford, where they investigate the resilience factors and processes influencing educational outcomes for refugee children, stateless youth, unaccompanied minors, and undocumented migrants. Yousef's research is driven both by an interest in mixed methods research design and a passion for the provision of appropriate education and social care services to vulnerable child and youth populations.

A passionate public health research scholar who is also into writing fiction and poems.

Currently postdoctoral fellow at LaSSP, Sciences Po Toulouse.

Armando Aliu is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of the International and Political Studies, Centre for International Studies and Development (CISAD) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). He is a Member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Law Society of England and Wales, Max Planck Alumni Association (MPAA), European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), MIT-SOLVE, and the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET). He holds a Ph.D. Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the ICU, Department of International Commerce and the European Union Law. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Competence, Migration Governance and Collaboration in the Balkans and Turkey: Migration and Refugees Issues from the European Union Law Perspective.” He holds a Master's degree in European Studies from the University of Hamburg in Germany. His M.A. dissertation is entitled “Controlling Migration and Hybrid Model: A Comparison of Western Balkans and North African Countries.” In his dissertation, he argued migration flows and asylum issues in the frame of empirical, analytical, and political comparisons of Western Balkans and North African countries.
Dr. Aliu was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2011-2014). Based on one year contract (2011-2012) he was a DAAD investigator in the "Schumpeter Project: Constitutional Reasoning in Europe" conducted at Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. At the institute, he also worked independently on Hybridity Project: Innovative Governance, and Controlling Migration.
In 2017, he was a Visiting Study Fellow in the Department of International Development, IMI at the University of Oxford. He has over 10 years of research experience and over 100 scientific publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, congress proceedings, edited books, book chapters, project proposals, and so on. Since 2012, he has been serving as peer/reviewer for SSCI, SCI, A&H, ESCI indexed journals. Since 2014, he has been serving as a SEDIA funding & tender expert and senior ECAS EU project referee for the European Commission. He is an expert in the EU Project Writing Techniques, the EU Projects Evaluation Criteria, and Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Project Management Standards.
His research interests contain; politics and administration, migration and refugee studies, asylum, criminal justice, human rights, ethics, UN SDGs, European studies, EU law, governance, WTO law, stakeholder approach, and so on.
He is Associate Editor of Cogent Social Sciences and Frontiers in Political Science, Article Editor of Sage Open, and Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Business Policy & Governance, Social Sciences Advisory Board Member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and Roster member of UN Migration Research Hub and EU Mieux Initiative. He is an Outstanding/Recognised Peer of Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer); Academy of Management (AoM); Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (Brill - Nijhoff & Lynne Rienner Publishers); Journal of International Migration and Integration (Springer); Cambridge Journal of Science & Policy (University of Cambridge, CJSP); Journal of Travel Medicine (Oxford University Press); Globalization and Health (Springer); Innovation and Impact (De Gruyter Open); Economia Politica (Springer); SAGE Open (SAGE Publications); International Journal of Intercultural Relations (Elsevier); Journal of Migration Health (Elsevier); International Economics and Economic Policy (Springer); Tourism Management (Elsevier); Annals of Tourism Research (Elsevier); Current Issues in Tourism (Taylor and Francis – Routledge); International Journal of Tourism Research (Wiley); Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis); Cogent Education (Taylor and Francis); MDPI Social Sciences; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; Healthcare (MDPI); Administrative Sciences (MDPI); Sustainability (MDPI); Journal of Personalized Medicine; Journal of Risk and Financial Management; Genealogy (MDPI); Societies (MDPI); Energies (MDPI); Journal of open innovation; Tourism and Management Studies (Algarve, PL). He was an associate member in the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement and a CUSPE fundraiser at the University of Cambridge. In 2021, he worked as an International Consultant and PostDoc researcher at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) – United Nations Migration Agency. In Spring 2023, he has been awarded a LIAS Fellowship and affiliated with the KU Leuven as Visiting Fellow at the Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (LIAS) and Visiting Scholar at the KU Leuven Faculty of Medicine in Leuven (Belgium).

I am holding PhD in International Relations with expertise in Migration and Refugee studies.

Hooshmand Alizadeh received PhD degree in urban design from Newcastle University, UK in 2006. He is associate professor at the University of Kurdistan and senior postdoc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has more than fifteen years’ experience of teaching and research in Urban Studies, particularly dealing with different aspects of urbanism in general and public space in particular. The most important scholarly achievement is the development of the concept of Kurdish city in general and the concept of women’s spatiality based on the extent of their interactions with and empowerment from public spaces in his new research project (was funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions in 2019) defined based on a comparative study in different urban contexts of Middle East and Europe.

Hilal Alkan is a researcher based at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. She completed her PhD at the Open University, UK. She conducted extensive ethnographic research with informal neighborhood organizations providing initial assistance to migrants and refugees in Istanbul. In another project she worked with Syrian refugees who lived in Turkey and then fled to Germany to comparatively understand the two migration contexts from the viewpoint of refugees themselves. Most recently, she is working on multispecies care in contexts of displacement and migration, with a particular focus on plants.

Jean Allegrini is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science from University College London (UCL) and an independent researcher using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. Jean specialises on the governance of divided societies at the local level in the Levant (especially Lebanon), Mediterranean, and Central Asia. He focuses on the power strategies possessed by clientelist elites to perpetuate their domination at times of migratory crisis. Jean advises governments and think-tanks on Levantine affairs.