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Academic Staff Directory

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Unit 1 - European Decision-Making

Unit 2 - European Public Management

Unit 3 - European Policies

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EIPA can rely on a permanent team of over 150 highly skilled staff.
The scientific staff consists of academics, civil servants and other practitioners from most EU Member States and countries associated with the Institute. Practical know-how and scientific excellence form a strong combination in conducting research and delivering training on the key topics related to the European integration process.
The Institute's professional supporting staff team is responsible for a complete range of organisational, logistical and administrative services.
The official working languages are English and French, but other languages are also commonly used by EIPA's multilingual staff and in various programmes.

Sylvia Archmann (AT) • Seconded National Expert

Dr Edward Best (UK) • Professor; Head of Unit “European Decision-Making”

Rita Beuter (DE) • Senior Expert

Danielle Bossaert (LU) • Seconded National Expert (part-time)

Julia Bosse (DE) • Research Assistant

Michael Burnett (UK) • Expert

Alberta Capasso (IT) • Research Assistant

Dr Christoph Demmke (DE) • Professor

Igor Dizdarevic (FR) • Lecturer

Dr. Alina Domaradzka (PL) • Lecturer

Dr Simon Duke (UK) • Professor

Tom FitzGerald (IRL) • Seconded National Expert

Peter Goldschmidt (DK) • Expert; Director of the European Centre for Judges and Lawyers

Kalliroi Grammenou (GR) • Researcher

Marion-Valérie Grasset (FR) • Research Assistant

Alain Guggenbühl (FR) • Senior Lecturer based at EIPA’s Representative Office in Brussels

Alexander Heichlinger (AT) • Expert; Manager EPSA

Prof. Dr Daniela Heid (DE) • Head of Unit

Virgil Ivan-Cucu (RO) • Senior Lecturer

Dr Theo Jans (BE) • Associate Professor

Petra Jeney (HU) • Senior Lecturer

Dr Iwona Karwot (PL) • Senior Lecturer

Wolfgang Koeth (DE) • Senior Lecturer

Tomasz Kramer (PL) • Lecturer

Mihalis Kritikos (GR) • Lecturer

Dr Katerina-Marina Kyrieri (EL) • Lecturer

Frank Lambermont (NL) • Research Assistant

Dr Sabina Lange (SI) • Lecturer

Frank Lavadoux (FR) • Senior Lecturer

Amélie Leclercq (FR) • Seconded National Expert

Marco Lopriore (IT) • Senior Lecturer

Cosimo Monda (IT) • Senior Lecturer; Head of Information, Documentation, Publications and Marketing Services

Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz (ES) • Senior Lecturer

Dania Samoul (CA/SY) • Coordinator MEDA Justice III

Harrie Scholtens (NL) • Seconded National Expert

Patrick Staes (BE) • Seconded National Expert

Pavlina Stoykova (BG) • Coordinator Contracting and Tendering / Lecturer

Nick Thijs (BE) • Lecturer

Cristiana Turchetti (IT) • Seconded National Expert; Acting Head of Unit "European Public Management"

Martin Unfried (DE) • Expert

Gracia Vara Arribas (ES) • Expert

Joan Xirau Serra (ES) • Director of EIPA Barcelona

Dr Edward Best (UK)

Professor; Head of Unit “European Decision-Making”

Fields of Specialisation: European institutions and decision-making processes; comparative regional cooperation and integration.

Alain Guggenbühl (FR)

Senior Lecturer based at EIPA’s Representative Office in Brussels

Fields of Specialisation: EU governance and European negotiations.

Dr Theo Jans (BE)

Associate Professor

Fields of Specialisation: Decision making and European Governance

Frank Lavadoux (FR)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Institutional context of and communication and behavioural techniques for European negotiation processes.

Cosimo Monda (IT)

Senior Lecturer; Head of Information, Documentation, Publications and Marketing Services

Fields of Specialisation: EU Information and Communication Management; EU decision-making procedures and Institutions; EU Agencies; EU law; Transparency, Data Protection, Consumer Protection; eLearning & Information Society.

Mihalis Kritikos (GR)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making; risk regulation; health law; environmental law; climate change law; food law; governance of science.

Dr Sabina Lange (SI)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Decision-making in external relations of the EU; Presidency organisation and conduct.

Frank Lambermont (NL)

Research Assistant

Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making procedures and Institutions; CFSP; data protection; EU law

Marion-Valérie Grasset (FR)

Research Assistant

Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making procedures and institutions; EU law

Cristiana Turchetti (IT)

Seconded National Expert; Acting Head of Unit "European Public Management"

Fields of Specialisation: Public administration issues; cultural diversity; intercultural and interreligious dialogue; technical cooperation; accountability mechanisms; ethical and equal opportunities issues; labour standards and social dialogue.

Dr Christoph Demmke (DE)

Professor

Fields of Specialisation: Implementation of European environmental policy and law; comparative studies on public service reform (including HRM reforms).

Michael Burnett (UK)

Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public procurement; public-private partnerships and privatisation; public service delivery management; public financial management; European economic and monetary union

Sylvia Archmann (AT)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public administration; organisational development; eGovernment; quality management; performance management; project management and administrative development; benchmarking; change management and communication.

Danielle Bossaert (LU)

Seconded National Expert (part-time)

Fields of Specialisation: Comparative public administration; public sector reform; human resource management

Tom FitzGerald (IRL)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public administration, modernisation, performance management

Harrie Scholtens (NL)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Local government; change management; governmental benchmarking; HRM; implementation of local e-Government; client orientation in local government.

Patrick Staes (BE)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public management; quality in the public sector; Common Assessment Framework (CAF); consulting services.

Nick Thijs (BE)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Public management reform; comparative public administration; public sector quality management; quality models and techniques (Common Assessment Framework – CAF); consultancy services.

Pavlina Stoykova (BG)

Coordinator Contracting and Tendering / Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Comparative public administration; the role of national parliaments in the EU accession process; interface between political and administrative levels.

Alberta Capasso (IT)

Research Assistant

Fields of Specialisation: Project Cycle Management; European integration; public administration issues; European Neighbourhood Policy

Unit 1 - European Decision-Making

Dr Edward Best (UK)

Professor; Head of Unit “European Decision-Making”

Fields of Specialisation: European institutions and decision-making processes; comparative regional cooperation and integration.

Alain Guggenbühl (FR)

Senior Lecturer based at EIPA’s Representative Office in Brussels

Fields of Specialisation: EU governance and European negotiations.

Dr Theo Jans (BE)

Associate Professor

Fields of Specialisation: Decision making and European Governance

Frank Lavadoux (FR)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Institutional context of and communication and behavioural techniques for European negotiation processes.

Cosimo Monda (IT)

Senior Lecturer; Head of Information, Documentation, Publications and Marketing Services

Mihalis Kritikos (GR)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making; risk regulation; health law; environmental law; climate change law; food law; governance of science.

Dr Sabina Lange (SI)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Decision-making in external relations of the EU; Presidency organisation and conduct.

Frank Lambermont (NL)

Research Assistant

Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making procedures and Institutions; CFSP; data protection; EU law

Marion-Valérie Grasset (FR)

Research Assistant

Fields of Specialisation: EU decision-making procedures and institutions; EU law

Unit 2 - European Public Management

Cristiana Turchetti (IT)

Seconded National Expert; Acting Head of Unit "European Public Management"

Dr Christoph Demmke (DE)

Professor

Fields of Specialisation: Implementation of European environmental policy and law; comparative studies on public service reform (including HRM reforms).

Michael Burnett (UK)

Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public procurement; public-private partnerships and privatisation; public service delivery management; public financial management; European economic and monetary union

Sylvia Archmann (AT)

Seconded National Expert

Danielle Bossaert (LU)

Seconded National Expert (part-time)

Fields of Specialisation: Comparative public administration; public sector reform; human resource management

Tom FitzGerald (IRL)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public administration, modernisation, performance management

Harrie Scholtens (NL)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Local government; change management; governmental benchmarking; HRM; implementation of local e-Government; client orientation in local government.

Patrick Staes (BE)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Public management; quality in the public sector; Common Assessment Framework (CAF); consulting services.

Nick Thijs (BE)

Lecturer

Pavlina Stoykova (BG)

Coordinator Contracting and Tendering / Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Comparative public administration; the role of national parliaments in the EU accession process; interface between political and administrative levels.

Alberta Capasso (IT)

Research Assistant

Fields of Specialisation: Project Cycle Management; European integration; public administration issues; European Neighbourhood Policy

Unit 3 - European Policies

Prof. Dr Daniela Heid (DE)

Head of Unit

Fields of Specialisation: European competition law and policy, especially European State Aid; former “third pillar” (cooperation of the European justice and police forces; area of freedom, security and justice).

Rita Beuter (DE)

Senior Expert

Fields of Specialisation: European public procurement rules and policy

Dr Simon Duke (UK)

Professor

Fields of Specialisation: Common Foreign and Security Policy; EU defence budgets and procurement; EU-US security relations; EU relations with WEU and NATO.

Martin Unfried (DE)

Expert

Fields of Specialisation: Environmental policy; climate change; integration of environmental policies into other sectors.

Marco Lopriore (IT)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: European Social Fund (ESF); Lisbon Agenda; enterprise policy and SME aspects of the Structural Funds.

Wolfgang Koeth (DE)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU External Relations, Enlargement Policies and CFSP

Dr Katerina-Marina Kyrieri (EL)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU law (institutional developments, multilevel governance); European Parliament; legislative procedures (co-decision); immigration; employment; labour market trends and SMEs policies

Peter Goldschmidt (DK)

Expert; Director of the European Centre for Judges and Lawyers

Fields of Specialisation: Coordination of national preparation and implementation of EC and EU policies and law; EC competition and merger control law; training needs analysis, evaluation of training and training-of-trainers; EU, international and accession negotiations; EU enlargement and law approximation; the administration of justice.

Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz (ES)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Legal aspects of the European integration process; the constitutional and judicial system of the EU; the internal market and the four freedoms (free movement of goods); consumer law (particularly food law issues); external relations of the EU.

Virgil Ivan-Cucu (RO)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU area of freedom security and justice; EU and international criminal law; EU judicial cooperation in criminal matters; reform of justice and security systems; prevention of and combating organised crime corruption and terrorism; e-Justice.

Petra Jeney (HU)

Senior Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: Area of freedom, security and justice in the European Union; EU judicial cooperation (particularly civil matters); EU family law; EU constitutional law issues; aspects of quality of justice.

Amélie Leclercq (FR)

Seconded National Expert

Fields of Specialisation: e-Justice and other aspects of judicial organisation; quality and administration of justice; judicial training.

Igor Dizdarevic (FR)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU Environmental law; General EU constitutional law; All activities related to the European Investment Bank; EU regulations on Structural Funds; Public Private Partnerships

Dr. Alina Domaradzka (PL)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: EU financial services law, the free movement of capital, EU constitutional law

Tomasz Kramer (PL)

Lecturer

Fields of Specialisation: The internal market, notably the free movement of persons and services and freedom of establishment; EPSO recruitment proceduresand staff regulations of EU Institutions; EU company law and EU competition law.

Kalliroi Grammenou (GR)

Researcher

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