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Current Job Market Candidates of the Department of Political and Social Sciences

Please find more below about our job market researchers and their research

All our PhDs are reachable through email.

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    Tarek Jaziri Arjona

    Research Associate

    Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

    Researcher

    Department of Political and Social Sciences

Tarek Jaziri-Arjona is a political scientist and sociologist trained at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he earned his degree in Sociology and Political Science, followed by a Master’s in Social Sciences at the Juan March Institute. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the European University Institute, focusing on the dynamics of political behavior and electoral processes. His dissertation explores how daily interactions with friends and family shape political norms and behaviors. During his doctoral studies, he has presented his work at international conferences and conducted research stays at the London School of Economics and New York University.

Email:  [email protected]

Research Interest/s: Political behaviour, elections, social networks, parties, social norms, causal inference

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit:  Personal website

 

Aziz Bagadirov is a Hannah Arendt Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). Previously, he has been a Chevening Scholar at the University of Southampton (UK) and has worked in the UN Refugee Agency. His research focuses on the connection between the structures of oppression and human flourishing, in particular a proper theory of well-being for relational egalitarianism. You can find his most recent co-authored work here.

Job market paper: "Structural injustice and human flourishing" (Abstract)

Research Interests: Political and Social Theory; Theories of Justice; Well-being; Class and Domination; Critical theory.

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

Francesca Bramucci  is currently pursuing a PhD at the department of Political and Social Sciences with a focus on prejudice and discrimination reduction, gender equality and social norms. She was also vising PhD student at New York University (New York). She previously completed an MSc and a BA in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University (Milan). Her methodological interests are experimental and quantitative methods.

Job Market Paper: Working Papers abstracts

Research Interest/s: discrimination, prejudice, inter-group contact, gender equality, social norms, quantitative methods

 

Anna Clemente is a PhD researcher in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Her research looks at the origins of meritocratic beliefs and their persistence over time, through experimental methods and causal inference techniques using survey and Twitter data. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford under the Schuman Fulbright program and at the Connected_Politics Lab (University College Dublin).

Job Market Paper: "Mind the Bricks: Fairness Beliefs and Local Housing Inequality in the UK"

Research Interest/s: Socio-economic Inequalities and preferences fore redistribution; Elite discourse;  Public Opinion; Experimental methods.

 

Magalí Serra Duran is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute, specializing in comparative politics and historical political economy. Her work explores the evolution of gender norms and how they shape women's collective consciousness and agency over time. She aims to uncover the historical and political processes that influence gender dynamics, offering insights into societal change and equality. She holds a master’s in research in political science and a master’s in political analysis.

Job Market Paper:  "Normative Breaches and Women's Mobilization: The Enduring Legacy of Executions in Catalonia"

Email:  [email protected]

Research Interest/s: Research Interest/s: Gender norms; political violence; political behaviour; women’s suffrage; democratisation

 

Gaia Ghirardi is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political and Social Science at the European University Institute. She is a sociologist interested in understanding the reproduction of social inequality on various socio-demographic and health outcomes. In particular, in her PhD dissertation, she studies how genes and environment interact in shaping social inequality in educational attainment. In her thesis, she uses decades of sociological theories and knowledge to further investigate educational inequalities including genetics data. During her PhD, she was also a visiting researcher at INED and CREST (Paris), University of Bologna, and UNED (Madrid).

Job Market Paper: "Re-theorizing sociogenomics research on the gene-by-family socioeconomic status (GxSES) interaction for educational attainment" (under review)

Research Interest/s: Social stratification, Educational inequalities, Sociogenomics, Early childhood

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal website

 

Lorenzo Mascioli is a PhD researcher in political science and public policy at the European University Institute, focusing on territorial inequalities and local governance. Previously, he served as the financial inclusion policy advisor at the U.K. Treasury. He holds a BSc in Political Science and Economics from UCL, an MSc in Political Economy from LSE, and an MRes from the EUI. During his PhD, he has been a visiting researcher at Sciences Po and Princeton University, the latter through the Fulbright Schuman Program.



Job Market Paper:  "After Putnam: City networks and public policy in contemporary Italy"

Email:  [email protected]

Research Interest/s: Policy networks and governance; regional and local development; urban studies

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit:  Personal website

 

Tae Kyeong Meixner-Yun is a PhD researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. His PhD project examines how digitalised forms of social relations affect social cohesion, with a focus on social networks, well-being, and (gender) inequality. He is also interested in topics on discrimination, migration, and race/ethnicity. He is trained in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including experiments, panel data, and interviews.

Job Market Paper: "Online Social Contacts, Network Size, and Loneliness: Examining the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath in the Netherlands"

Email:  [email protected] / [email protected]

Research Interest/s: Digitalisation, Online Communication, Inequality, Discrimination, Gender, Social Networks, Social Status, Migration and Integration, Race and Ethnicity.

 

Juliette Saetre is a PhD researcher in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on migration-driven knowledge transfers and their effects on receiving communities, particularly in the context of collective action and attitudes. She holds an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford and has been a visiting researcher at Sciences Po and New York University.

Job Market Paper:  "How Protests Spread: Diasporas, Wide Bridges, and the Transnational Diffusion of Un Violador en tu Camino"

Email:  [email protected]

Research Interest/s: Protests, Collective Action, Migration, Social Networks, Diffusion

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal website

 

Tiago Vieira is a PhD candidate whose research delves into the impact of Artificial Intelligence is (re)shaping the Future of Work, looking specifically at workers' wellbeing and managers' legitimacy. Fluent speaker of Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Works with both qualitative and quantitative methods. His work has been published in top academic outlets, such as the Socio-Economic Review and New Technology, Work and Employment, as well as non-academic, namely The Conversation and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's blog.

Job Market Paper: "Platform couriers' self-exploitation: The case study of Glovo"

Email:  [email protected]

Research Interest/s: Algorithmic management, Worker wellbeing, Employment relations, Platform work

 

Julian studied holds degrees from SciencesPo Paris, and studied at the American University of Beirut. His thesis on clientelism, political mobilization, and democratic innovation in Lebanon employs surveys, interviews, and causal inference designs, and includes joint work with researchers at Harvard and IHEID. He has presented in conferences such as APSA and EPSA, but also to Lebanese policy makers. He has taught at SciencesPo and CEU. He volunteers as a paramedic with the Italian Red Cross.

Job Market Paper: "And when it all blows up? Corruption Victimization, Blast Physics, and the Electoral Effects of the 2020 Beirut Port Explosion"

Research Interest/s Corruption, clientelism, democratic development, experiments, humanitarian affairs, Middle Eastern Studies

For more information and links to published and ongoing work, please visit: Personal Website

 

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