Dr. Federica Zardo

Federica Zardo is Senior Researcher at the Department for Migration and Globalisation since March 2021.

• Senior Researcher in the areas of interest at the Department for Migration and Globalisation
• PhD supervision
• Coordinator of the research cluster “Migration Policy and Governance”
• Teaching in the framework of the PhD Programme "Migration Studies"
• Projects: EasyRights, Quantmig, Sereny

Federica Zardo is a political scientist working at the intersection between International Relations and Public Policy, with an empirical focus on the EU´s external relations and the EU migration policy. She obtained a PhD in political science and international relations at the University of Turin with a thesis on EU-Tunisia relations which has been published in 2020 as a monograph by Palgrave Macmillan. From 2016 to 2021 she has been working as Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna, Centre for European Integration Research, and in March 2021 she joined the Danube University as senior researcher where she is working on the external dimension of the EU migration.

Her specific research interests include:

• EU decision-making in the field of migration
• EU-third countries relations on migration
• Migration policy instruments and their impacts