Webinar: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

Webinar: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

Tuesday, 18.02.2025 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm IST (CET 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm)

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(Public event, online)

Join the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin and the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights for a discussion of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships.The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin seek outstanding postdoctoral researchers to apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, the EU’s flagship funding programme for postdoctoral training.  

A good fit between the researcher, mentor, and host institution is crucial to the MSC programme.  We invite you to join us for this informal webinar, where outstanding MSC grantees will share their experiences from their research journeys. This webinar will bring together former mentors and researchers to discuss how to seek a mentor and host institution and co-develop your research application.

Registration is required. Registered attendees will receive the dial-in details via e-mail prior to the event. To attend this event, please register (opens in a new window)here. 

Speakers:          (opens in a new window)
Grażyna Baranowska is a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before that, she was a senior researcher at Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights, leading a project on missing migrants funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Next to her academic work, she worked as a policy advisor at the German Institute for Human Rights and was involved in the process of drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances and migration for the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. In 2022, she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as an independent expert of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

Mina Hosseini is an experienced researcher, lecturer, Marie Curie alumna, lawyer, consultant and mentor with research interests in health law, competition law, pharmaceutical law and AI in healthcare. She holds a PhD in Competition Law, an LLM in Business Law from Beheshti University (Tehran) and an LLB in Law from Shiraz University. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UCD Sutherland School of Law (2022-2024), she led COMPHACRISIS, a project investigating EU competition law enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lilian Tsourdi is an Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and the Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law (OUP). She is the Deputy Coordinator of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, the 'Odysseus Network', and co-chairs with UNHCR the European Academic Refugee Interdisciplinary Network (EARIN), established under the UN Global Compact on Refugees. She is currently PI of the SoftEn (Soft Enforcement of EU Migration Law) project, supported by a European Research Council Starting Grant, and WP leader of the ongoing Horizon Europe. In the past, Lilian received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission and VENI and Hestia grants from the Dutch Research Council.

Conveners

(opens in a new window)Cathryn Costello is a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School. She is a Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. She was formerly Professor of Fundamental Rights and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (2020 – 2023). She is a leading scholar of international and European refugee and migration law and also explores the relationship between migration and labour law in her work. She is currently the Principal Investigator of RefMig, a five-year ERC-funded research project exploring refugee mobility, recognition and rights, and the Volkswagen Foundation funded AFAR project, based at the Hertie Centre for Fundamental Rights. She has also undertaken research for UNHCR, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford.

Violeta Moreno-Lax is a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School during the Spring term of 2025 and a Full Professor of Law (on special leave) at Queen Mary University of London, where she has served as inaugural director of the Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Migration and Displacement: (B)OrderS. She specialises in international and EU migration law at the intersection with border violence, global security, and human rights. She regularly consults for UN agencies, the EU institutions, and other organisations in these fields. Her work has been cited by leading courts, including the (opens in a new window)Court of Justice of the European Union or the (opens in a new window)Belgian Conseil d’État. She is a Visiting Professor of the College of Europe, legal adviser and founding member of (opens in a new window)de:border, focusing on strategic litigation, and sits in the Editorial Boards of the (opens in a new window)European Journal of Migration and Law and the (opens in a new window)International Journal of Refugee Law. For further details on her publications consult her (opens in a new window)ORCiD, (opens in a new window)SSRN and (opens in a new window)Academia pages.