Georgia Mavrodi graduated in International Relations and Political Studies from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. She holds a Master of Arts in European Studies from the University of Bath and the Humboldt University of Berlin; and a Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, where she also earned her Ph.D. in Political Science (2010). Her doctoral research focused on the processes of Europeanisation of national immigration policies in recent “countries of immigration” in the EU with a special emphasis on Greece. Georgia specializes in European integration, Europeanisation, and comparative immigration and refugee policies. Her publications include articles in international referred journals and chapters in edited volumes. She has taught at the James Madison University MA Program on European Union Policy Studies (2009-11) and at the University of Siegen (2011). She has been the Hannah Seeger Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University (2011-2012) and an academic associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2010-14).

Research interests: migration, EU, comparative, policy-making processes, and public participation