Florian Trauner is a Research Professor at the Institute for European Studies and the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus, where he teaches on immigration, asylum and border control in the European Union (joint course with Sandra Lavenex). His research interests concern EU justice and home affairs (in particular migration, asylum, visa, return and counter-terrorism policies), linkages between European internal security and foreign affairs/external relations, the role of EU institutions and dynamics of decision-making, EU-Western Balkans relations. A graduate of the Universities of Vienna and Copenhagen, he received his PhD in 2008 (with distinction) and his habilitation in 2015. His work has appeared in a number of journals such as West European Politics, the Journal for European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Integration, International Migration, European Foreign Affairs Review, the European Journal of Migration and Law and international publishing houses. He is author of ‘The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: EU justice and home affairs in Macedonia and Croatia’ (Manchester University Press) and editor of ‘Policy Change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: how EU institutions matter’ (Routledge, with Ariadna Ripoll Servent). Again with Ariadna, he also edited the ‘Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research’, a book with 39 chapters comprehensively covering the theories, policies and actors in this field. He is currently participating in the Horizon-2020 project MINDb4ACT on tackling radicalization and violent extremism led by the Elcano Royal Institute and co-directing the project ‘African Migration: Root Causes and Regulatory Dynamics (AMIREG)’ funded by the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS).

Political science studies