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Lina Vosyliute is a Research Fellow at CEPS, in the Justice and Home Affairs unit.

Her research focuses on EU migration and asylum policies; border controls; the criminalisation of humanitarianism; migrant smuggling and other organised crime issues; the protection of minorities in the EU, with a focus on Roma inclusion and anti-Gypsyism; the role of civil society actors and broader rule of law and fundamental rights challenges. Previously, Lina carried out various studies at the Vilnius-based research institute Visionary Analytics.

Since 2008 she has conducted academic research and implemented evidence-based advocacy on behalf of various non-governmental organisations in Malta, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa. In 2018 she was ranked among the 100 most influential women in Lithuania.

Dr. Nicholas Vretos obtained the degree of BSc in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 2002 and his Ph.D. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2012. During the elaboration of his thesis, he taught as an assistant and worked as a research assistant in Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory. He has worked on 15 European projects as Technical Manager/ WP Leader/researcher. He has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings and a book chapter. He is a member of the IEEE and has committed as a reviewer for several journals and conferences in the field of image and video processing. His main interests are in image and video processing, semantic analysis, neural networks and 3-D data processing.

Louis Vuilleumier holds an MSc in Anthropology from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). His doctoral project is funded by the Doc.ch scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). His research focuses on the internalization of border controls within European mobility regimes, the effects of temporal dispossession on the trajectories of illegalized migrants, and their daily forms of resistance.

I have worked more than 3 years in the humanitarian field, with the international and national organizations in Turkey.

From 2016 until now I have worked in kind of positions where I experienced the field, the theory and the practice all together.

I am serving as the Field Worker about asylum skeers and refugees in Refugees Support Center right now.

I had my Masters Degree in Social Work University, Sakarya. My master thesis name: "Male Violence to Syrian Refugees Married Women and Turkish Married Women: KİLİS Sample". This thesis now international and national a book.

Volha Vysotskaya is a research associate at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and specialises in the field of Social Change, Population Dynamics, and the Life Course. Her interests lie in research on transition, life course, mobility and migration. She is equally interested in developing research on migration of skilled and highly skilled workers, social cohesion and integration of migrants in the receiving countries.

A political scientist, a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, an affiliate at the Centre of Migration Research, and an assistant researcher at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. His research is focused on migration, integration, and Middle Eastern affairs. He was professionally involved in the integration of refugees between 2008 and 2022. A former human rights observer in the West Bank (oPt) and humanitarian worker in Jordan. He was working on the projects "IMINTEG – in search for models of relations between immigration and integration policies" between 2016 and 2019 and "Foreigners – Varsovians. Diagnosis and Recommendations of Integration Activities" in
2021. He is currently involved in the projects: "ARICA – A Multi-directional Analysis of Refugee/IDP Camp Areas based on HR/VHR Satellite Data" and "Investing in 'Welcoming Spaces' in Europe: Revitalizing Shrinking Areas by Hosting non-EU Migrants".

Dr. Megha Wadhwa is a migration researcher and Japanese and South Asian Studies scholar. She is a Research Associate at Free University of Berlin, and a visiting scholar at Sophia University, Tokyo, which is also her alma mater. Her research passion lies in understanding the similarities and differences in the migration trends of Indians in Japan, Germany and other places around the globe. Her research focuses on identity, ethnicity, race, social class, women, and skills in migration. She is originally from New Delhi and was a resident of Tokyo for about 15 years before she moved to Berlin in 2021. She is the author of the book ‘Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Socio-Cultural, Religious and Working Worlds’ (Routledge:2021). She is also trained in fieldwork filming, and her recent documentaries are ‘Daughters from Afghanistan’ (2019), the 7-minute documentary ‘Indian cooks in Japan’ (2020), and Finding their Niche (Upcoming 2022)

Eline has a background in Political Science and International Relations with a BSc from the University of Tromsø - the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and a MSc from Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). She has also spent some time at the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Eline is interested in the different discourses and practices shaping the field of EUropean external(ized) border management and Frontex's work, including (de)esecuritization, crisis and humanitarianism, among others.

Visiting PhD Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Department of Sociology, March 2020 – September 2020.