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Marcello Carammia

Chair

Marcello Carammia is an Associate Professor in Political science at the University of Catania. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of institutions and public policies, with special interest in the interaction between migration dynamics, politics, and policy. Between 2015 and 2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the European Asylum Support Office (EASO – the EU Asylum Agency), where he was responsible for the Agency’s Research programme on the push and pull factors of asylum-related migration. Previously he was a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer (2011-2015) in comparative European politics at the University of Malta. He is a founding co-director of the Italian Agendas Project and a core member of the EU Agendas Project. He is a member of the Core leadership of the COST project International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network (Ethmigsurveydata), directed by Prof Laura Morales at Sciences-Po Paris; a PI for Malta of the COST project Professionalization and Social Impact of European Political Science (Proseps) directed by prof Giliberto Capano at the University of Bologna; Advisory board member of the H2020 project Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy (QuantMig), directed by Prof Jakub Bijak at the University of Southampton; Scientific committee member of the EASO project Surveys of Asylum-Related Migrants (SAM). He has been a Visiting Fellow, Visiting Scholar or Visiting Researcher at the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Zaragoza, Sheffield, and Louvain-la-Neuve. He held invited seminars or lectures at the Universities of Barcelona, Belgrade, Bologna, Exeter, Lecce, Lisbon, Nicosia, Siena, Trieste and at the European University Institute. His articles appeared in such journals as European Union Politics, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Policy Studies Journal, and South European Society and Politics.

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Iole Fontana

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Experienced Researcher and consultant. Skilled in Political Science, Mediterranean and European Politics, Project Management and International Relations. Former intern at European External Action Service in Tunisia and visiting researcher at the University of Delaware, the London School of Economics and the University Hassan II in Casablanca. Works on #migration #climatechange # migrationpolicies #Euro-Mediterranean Relations #asylum Scientific Coordinator of the Project DEPMI - Dimensione Esterna Politica di Migrazione Italiana.

Viviana Condorelli

Tutor

PhD student in Complex Systems for Physical, Socio-economic and Life Sciences at the University of Catania (XXXVIII Cycle). Among her research interests: Artificial Intelligence; Human-AI interaction; Risk communication; Collective memory. MA graduate in Sociology of network, information, and innovation, curriculum in media, public and social communication. She is an experienced university tutor.