Expert on Europe

Ariadna Ripoll Servent is Professor for Politics of the European Union at the Salzburg Center of European Union Studies (SCEUS) and at the department of Political Science and Sociology at the Salzburg University. She obtained a DPhil in Contemporary European Studies from the Sussex European Institute (University of Sussex) in Brighton (2008 – 2011) and was a Postdoc researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research at the University of Vienna (2011-2013) before she became Junior Professor for Political Science and European Integration at the University of Bamberg (2013-2021). In 2019-2020, she was Jean Monnet Fellow and Research Fellow at the European Union Institute in Florence. Since 2019, she has acted as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Her publications have appeared in high-ranked journals, such as the “Journal of European Public Policy”, “Journal of Common Market Studies”, “West European Politics”, “Journal of European Integration” and “Politics and Governance”. She is the author and editor of four books, including “The European Parliament” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) and “The Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research” (Routledge, 2018). She is also a member of the editorial board of the “Journal of European Integration”, “Migration Politics” and “Politics and Governance“ as well as the “Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics” series.