
Research Affiliates
RLI Research Affiliates
The RLI Research Affiliates network provides a forum for doctoral students and researchers working on refugee law topics to engage with other researchers in academic exchanges relating to research and developments in the field. The Research Affiliate scheme is open to any researcher registered on a programme of doctorate on a relevant topic at the time of application.
Find out how to join the network here.

Dr. Michal Agmon-Gonnen
Presiding Judge in the Israeli Federal District Court, affiliate Professor at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Law School

Dr. Ayar Ata
Freelance Researcher | Member of IASF | Member of Sustainability Research Group, London South Bank University

Tatiana-Maria Cernicova-Dragomir
PhD student within a joint-PhD program between the Law Faculty of the West University of Timișoara (Romania) and Università degi Studi di Udine (Italy)

Sreetapa Chakrabarty
Assistant Professor in Political Science, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University

Dr Omotunde Enigbokan
Project Officer, Migration Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

Suraj Girijashanker
Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School; Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate at UCLA School of Law

Jan-Phillip Graf
PhD Candidate in International law at the German Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr-University Bochum

Dr Naoko Hashimoto
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Dr Lynn Hillary LLM
Assistant Professor, Europeanization Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Amsterdam

Asher Hirsch
Senior Policy Officer with the Refugee Council of Australia
& a PhD candidate at Monash University in Law Faculty

Aleksandra Jolkina
Researcher in European and comparative migration and asylum law, re:constitution fellow

Dr. Nicholas Maple
Lecturer in Refugee Studies; Module Convenor of An Introduction to Forced Migration Studies on the RLI MA Programme

Dr. Elizabeth Mavropoulou
Visiting Lecturer University of Westminster and Programme Manager, Human Rights at Sea

Dr. Madalina Moraru
Assistant Professor of EU law, Centre for Judicial Cooperation, European University Institute

Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway

Dr. Annick Pijnenburg
Assistant Professor in International and European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen

Chiara Scissa
PhD candidate in Law at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

Dr Rebecca Smyth
Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, specialising in international human rights law

Ricardo Strauch Aveline
Professor of Law and Coordinator of the Legal Practice Center at Faculdade Estácio in Porto Alegre/Brazil

Silvia Talavera Lodos
PhD student in Human Rights and Global Politics, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Kris van der Pas
LL.M, PhD Candidate, Centre for Migration Law, Department of International and European Law, Radboud University

Dr Janna Wessels
Assistant Professor of Migration Law at the Amsterdam Center for Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hannah Zaruchas
PhD candidate and research fellow at the doctoral training group 'Dynamic Integration' at Humboldt University Berlin

Dr Cristina Zamora-Gómez
Assistant professor at the Department of International Public Law and International Relations of the University of Alicante (Spain)