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Dr Shilan Fuad Hussain is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow expert in Cultural Analysis and Gender Studies. She is an interdisciplinary academic and works on a variety of topics such as Gender, Culture, and Diaspora. Her current work sits at the intersection of sociology and cultural analysis, and its symbiotic relevance to modern society.
https://www.shilanfuadhussain.com/

(Middle-Eastern Studies - Kurdish/Jewish Diaspora)

Lukas M. Fuchs is an interdisciplinary skilled migration and refugee researcher with international work experience at the intersection of international relations between states and transnational actors and the social integration of migrants. In addition to Germany, his methodologically diverse research work has taken him to Uganda, Kenya and Israel, where he has worked for NGOs and the IOM, among others. In his PhD at Freie Universität Berlin, he is addressing questions relating to values, belonging ​​and cultural diversification as a result of refugee migration. At DeZIM Institute, he currently works on return efforts and citizenship of refugees. He is also a member of the Global Mental Health research group at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Javier is a gender, migration and mental health consultant. They are the social worker and clinical coordination of la Clinique Mauve, a specialized clinic in healthcare and mental health for Trans and migrant people. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in social work, their experiences include community research, clinical practice with migrant LGBTQI+ people and research creation. They are also involved in the development of socially engaged art exhibitions within queer communities in Montreal and Colombia. Javier currently sits on the board of directors of AGIR (LGBTQI+ action with immigrants and refugees).

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Masaryk University (Brno, Czechia) and CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellow (NY, USA).
I am an IZA Affiliate and GLO Fellow.
I am a member of the National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Disease and Systemic Risks (SYRI).
I am a labour economist and my core research focuses on two broad topics:
1) Discrimination in the marketplace (e.g., labour, rental housing, service markets)
2) Effects of within cohort age differences (i.e., relative age/age at school entry)
Among other things, I am specialized in designing field experiments.

Ola G. El-Taliawi is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Scholar Affiliate of the Columbia Center for Middle East Studies. She holds a PhD degree from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the American University in Cairo. Her 12 year work experience spans across the public, private and non-profit sectors, where she worked as an assistant lecturer, researcher and consultant. Her research lies at the intersection between forced migration, gender and policy science. She has spoken in international conferences on numerous occasions, including as a guest speaker at the International Labour Organization (Geneva, 2012). Her most recent work is an op-ed entitled “Three ways East Asia can avoid a North Korean refugee crisis”; published with the Conversation.

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Lorenzo Gabrielli, Ph.D. cum laude in Political Science from LAM­Science Po Bordeaux, France (2011). is post-doctoral researcher at GRITIM-UPF, associate lecturer at Political Science Department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and associate researcher at Centre Emile Durkheim­Sciences Po Bordeaux. He has been visiting researcher at United Nationas University – Institute of Globalisation, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM), and senior visiting researcher at IEMed (European Institute of the Mediterranean). Dr. Gabrielli has also worked as researcher for EUNOMAD ­ European Network on Migration and Development, and for the Fundació Jaume Bofill, Barcelona. His research interests covers the following issues: the multilevel governance of international migration in the Euro­African space; the ‘migration–development’ nexus; borders and bordering/re-bordering processes; the issue of migrant integration; the transnational political participation of migrants, between other issues related with migration phenomena.
Dr. Gabrielli received a B.S. in Law from the University of Trento, Italy (2001), a DEA (MAS) in “Political analysis of Africa and Southern Countries”, from CEAN­Science Po Bordeaux (2002), and a Ph.D. cum laude in Political Science from LAM­Science Po Bordeaux, France (2011). His PhD dissertation examined the development of Spanish immigration policy, underlying his ambiguities and ambivalences through the case of West African migrations. Dr. Gabrielli was granted a Marie Curie PhD fellowship at Deusto University of Bilbao ­ European Doctorate Program of “Migration, Territory and Conflict” (2003­2004), and a fellowship by Bofill Foundation (Barcelona) (2006 ­2007).
He has also collaborated with the MHIC (Museum of Immigration History of Catalonia) where he developed contents and a multimedia application of the issue of forced mobility for the permanent exhibition. He is reviewer for several social sciences journals and book editors.