The following EUI Alumni volunteered to be contacted by current researchers to exchange in the framework of the Mentoring Initiative:
Alumni can be contacted on their name.surname@alumni.eui.eu address.
Name: Thomas Paster
Age: 45
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: SPS
Year of Graduation: 2009
Current Employment: Roskilde University
Languages: German, English, Danish
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Name: Endre Borbath
Age: 30
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: SPS
Year of Graduation: 2018
Current Employment: PostDoc at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Languages: Hungarian, English, Romanian
Short bio: I received my PhD in December 2018 from the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute, with a thesis on “Parties and protests in crisis-hit Europe: continuity and change in the structure of political conflict”. Before that I studied political science at the Central European University (still) in Budapest, focusing on electoral politics. I am motivated to participate in this for two reasons. I think there is an additional pressure first generation researchers at the EUI face, and this pressure is even higher if in addition one comes from the eastern european educational system/ background. If there's someone currently there who faces this issue, I am glad to share my experiences.
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Name: Elisa Volpi
Age: 33
Gender: F
Former EUI Affiliation: SPS
Year of Graduation: 2019
Current Employment: Post-doc, University of Geneva
Languages: Italian, French, English
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Name: Joao Rafael Cunha
Age: 36
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: MWP
Year of Graduation: 2018
Current Employment: University of St. Andrews
Languages: English, Portuguese
Short bio: I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews. I am also a member of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research and Centre for Global Law and Governance. Previously, I was a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, a Max Weber Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre and the Department of Economics at the European University Institute and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. My research interests include Financial Regulation, Banking, Political Economy, Law and Economics, Economic History, Macro-Finance, International Macroeconomics and Finance.
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Name: Dirk De Bievre
Age: 49
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: SPS
Year of Graduation: 2002
Current Employment: Professor of Political Science
Languages: Dutch; French; German; Italian; English
Short bio: See https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/dirk-debievre/ or my linkedin profile; The EUI changed my professional and personal life fundamentally for the better, and I will be very happy to explain why.
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Name: Andreev Svetlozar
Age: 47
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: SPS
Year of Graduation: 2003
Current Employment: EU institutions (Brussels)
Languages: Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Russian
Short bio: I am currently an EU official, previously a political science lecturer and researcher.
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Name: Kathryn Lum
Age: 44
Gender: F
Former EUI Affiliation: SPS
Year of Graduation: 2011
Current Employment: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Languages: English; Spanish; Portuguese; Italian; French
Short bio: I am currently working as Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). I am motivated to increase the socioeconomic diversity of EUI researchers.
Notes: not first-generation researcher.
Name: Sabine Rutar
Age: 53
Gender: F
Former EUI Affiliation: HEC
Year of Graduation: 2001
Current Employment: Senior Research Associate, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor
Languages: German, English, Italian, Slovene
Short bio: After completing my PhD at the EUI in 2001, I worked at the Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research (2001-02), the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University Bochum (2003-2007), and at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (since 2008). I have been awarded several fellowships and guest professorships, for example was I Humboldt Fellow at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, and guest professor at the University of Ljubljana and the EHESS (the latter postponed due to the pandemic). I am the daughter of Yugoslav / Slovenian refugees who came to Germany in 1958 (my father) and 1960 (my mother). I am the first in my family to complete a high school degree and attend university. I studied History as well as English and Romance languages. I worked in Rome, Italy, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, during my studies. I will be most glad to share my experience with others who struggle to move upward, socially.
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Name: Sigfrido Ramirez Perez
Age: 50
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: HEC
Year of Graduation: 2007
Current Employment: Researcher-Max Planck Institute
Languages: Spanish-English-French-Italian
Short bio: I have been in research since I completed my phd in various countries but also have working experience in University administration, multinational companies, public administration, foundations and associative movements. I am happy to help the EUI doctoral researchers.
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Name: Diego Garzia
Age: 39
Gender: M
Former EUI Affiliation: RSCAS
Year of Graduation: 2016
Current Employment: SNSF Professor of Political Science, University of Lausanne
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish
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