If you are curious about my PhD research, the project I am joining, or simply want to meet or have a chat, let me know — especially if you are around Bremen!

My next step? Today, I took up a post-doc at the University of Bremen. I am happy to be joining the team of Susanne Schmidt to do research on the implementation and enforcement of European internal market rules, as part of the Reconfiguring Europe project (tinyurl.com/4mmt4as9).

The list of people to thank is of course too long to list, but I am especially grateful to the jury members: my supervisors Waltraud Schelkle and Bernard Hoekman, and my external examiners @katemcnamara.bsky.social and @danmertens.bsky.social.

In the thesis, I argued that the EU’s “geo-economic turn” in trade and industrial policy is marked by more continuities with the past than is often thought — in its relation to corporate interests, globalization, the capacities of states to steer economic processes, and to European integration.

Two weeks ago, on Sept. 1st, I defended my dissertation at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. During my PhD I researched the political economy of the EU's 'geoeconomic turn', with special attention to European export finance, a growing instrument of geoeconomic interventionism.

This Monday I defended my PhD on the trade migration nexus at the University of Geneva! Thank you to my supervisor Sandra Lavenex, my committee Florian Trauner, Natascha Zaun and Matteo Gianni, to the nccr-on the move & to all friends who were with me on this exciting journey.
polisky migcitsky