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Amelia joined the University of Surrey in January 2019 as Head of the Department of Politics, and Chair in European and International Affairs. In January 2021, she assumes the role of Dean International. Previously she worked as Director of the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Canterbury Christ Church Uni (2013-2018), after positions in Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Institute for European Studies, where she directed the Euromaster degree, as well as the Educational Development (EDU). Amelia is a long-standing Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Affairs, researching, teaching, consulting & postgrad supervising on EU foreign policy, EU-UK relations. Her areas of expertise include Common Security and Defence Policy, EU-Russia Energy Relations, EU Neighbourhood Policy, EU Development policy (with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa), EU relations with the US and Canada, Arctic & northern governance issues, and European energy governance. Additional areas of interest include foreign policy analysis, international and diplomatic history, the role of sovereignty in political history, International Relations theory, international political economy, public policy analysis, the Commonwealth and EU education policy. Amelia is regularly called upon as a guest speaker, external supervisor, research partner, consultant and media pundit on areas of EU foreign affairs, and of late, EU-UK relations.
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I'm a lecturer in economics at University of York, interested in the long-run determinants of modern growth, especially New Economic Geography, International Trade, and Comparative Development.
After receiving a B.Sc. in Business Computing from the Universität Paderborn, and an M.Sc. in Information Systems from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, I started a PhD in economics with my advisor Nikolaus Wolf at Humboldt, for whom I also worked as a research and teaching assistant. I also had the chance to spend a semester at UC Berkeley. Now I am a lecturer at the department for Economics and Related Studies at the University of York.
I have a theoretical interest in long-run growth, especially market integration and institutions, and its geographic determinants. My academic background provides me with a solid range of empirical methods, especially concerning very large datasets, calculation-intensive modelling, and geographic information.