I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Global Governance in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Queen Mary University of London (starting September 2021). During 2020-2021, I am a Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow at the Queen’s University Belfast, where I carry out research for a third book. The project explores the multi-level governance of migrant and refugee health. My research is at the intersection of International Relations and Comparative Politics but also engages actively with Political Communication scholarship. Writ large, I am a scholar of international co-operation and global governance, focusing on the influence that international organisations like the United Nations and the European Union have on domestic institutions, politics, and societies. So far my research has explored these dynamics in different areas of policy-making and practice – crisis management, south-to-north and south-to-south migration, human rights, peace agreements and human rights after conflict, foreign policy (of the European Union and the United States), and corruption control. In addition, I have developed a research agenda in Political Communication, focusing on the formation and strategic uses of electoral rhetoric to advance populist political agendas. I have carried out analyses of large bodies of social media data (Twitter-based) and other Internet-based data – blogs, press releases, rally speeches and video material. My second book, The Strength of Our Commitments (currently under review), investigates the strength and effectiveness of national human rights institutions in Europe and beyond. My first book, The (In)visibility Complex was published in 2008 (Stockholm University) and explores questions of identity and artistic representations of the migrant experience in Sweden. I hold a PhD in International Relations (2017, London School of Economics) and a second PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures (2007, University of California Los Angeles). I also have two years of teaching and practice experience in the field of International Development at American University and as a practitioner in global migration at different international development organisations in Washington DC.