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Guia Gilardoni is an international research project manager at ISMU Foundation, where she is in charge for the International Relations. She has a research scholarship at the Catholic University in Milan. Her topics of interest are European migration policy, refugees and migrant integration. For the last ten years she has been committed to bring research and academic knowledge to policymakers. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Research Methods from Catholic University of Milan, where she specialized in the integration of young generations in a multicultural society, and a bachelor's degree in Modern History from Bologna University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of IMISCOE and leading ReSOMA – Research Social Platform on Migration and Asylum H2020.

Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Educational Anthropology, DPU, Aarhus University

Molly is a qualitative researcher specialising in using participatory research methods to improve humanitarian
healthcare. Molly works across the disciplines of Public Health, Community Education and Sociology and has ten years'
experience in research and management in academia, NGOs and think tanks. Molly has work experience across Europe,
Sub-Saharan Africa and most recently in the Greater Middle East. Molly has completed training on working and
researching in fragile environments and has studied Irish, Dutch, French and continues to study Arabic

Jordi Giner Monfort holds a degree in Sociology. He has participated in various research projects and contracts, with more than 40 publications, including articles, book chapters and monographs. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS-Birmingham). His main line of research focuses on the migrations of the British nationals, with special attention to return movements towards the United Kingdom.

Dario Giugliano, M.A. Università di Bologna (1993), PhD Università di Trieste (2012), is full professor of Aesthetics at Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli. He is on the advisory board of “Third Text. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture” and member of scientific committee of European Research Center in History and Theory of the Image (ICONE), Faculty of Philosophy, University “Vita-Salute San Raffaele”, Milan. He is founding editor of the journal “estetica. studi e ricerche”. From 2013 he is foreign member of the Accademia di Scienze Morali e Politiche of the Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli. From 2023 he is research associate at ISPF - Istituto per la Storia del Pensiero Filosofico e Scientifico Moderno (CNR).

Prof. Dr. Birgit Glorius works as professor for human geography with focus on European migration research at the European studies institute of Chemnitz university of technology. She was trained in Geography, Geology and Political Sciences at the universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Würzburg and the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a diploma in human geography from the university of Würzburg and a doctoral degree from the university of Halle-Wittenberg. Her research interests and majority of publications are in the fields of international migration, demographic change and geographies of education; most of her research is carried out in Eastern Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Western Balkans. Recent research projects include refugee reception in Europe, concentrating on questions of local governance and local reception cultures; effects of the European financial and economic crisis on migratory processes from southern European countries; and return migration of international students from studies abroad and mechanisms of knowledge transfer. Birgit is frequently asked to give expertise to federal and non-governmental institutions and receives invitations for academic keynotes on issues related to migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe.

Davide Gnes is a post-doctoral researcher at ACELG in the context of the project “Separation of Powers for 21st Century Europe” (SepaRope), which aims to examine the theory and practice of separation of powers in the European Union. Within SepaRope, Davide's research explores the institutional dynamics shaping EU governance, policy and law in the field of migration.

Davide holds a PhD in political science (2018) from the University of Amsterdam. His doctoral research examined coalition-building, organizational strategies and legitimacy amongst migrant advocacy organizations in Los Angeles, California. Davide also obtained an Erasmus Mundus MSc in International Migration and Social Cohesion (Universities of Amsterdam, Bilbao, Lima and Riga) and an MA in International Relations and BA in Political Science, both from the University of Pavia, Italy.

Prior to this position, Davide was a policy advisor on EU migration and development policy in Brussels. He also worked and interned for a number of other NGOs in Jordan, Spain and Denmark on issues related to migration and international development.

Pedro Góis is a Professor in Sociology and Methodology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Undergraduate degree in Sociology, masters and PhD in Sociology. He is an expert in sociology of migration and quantitative methodologies. Recently he was consultant or country expert for the International Organisation for Migration (OIM), Caritas International, The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), European Commission or European Migration Network (EMN). His most recent research-driven publications used quantitative and qualitative methodologies and include papers and books on: refugees in Europe; transnational ethnic identity; Portuguese immigration and emigration; Brazilian migration or Eastern European migrants; discrimination practices in the labour market; immigrants' descendants; and diasporic engagement practices and policies.