Dr. Florian Trauner
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
01/2008–Present: Assistant Professor in Political Science and Deputy Director of the Institute for European Integration Research (since 06/2013), University of Vienna
11/2014-Present: Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus, Poland
07/2014: Visiting Fellow, Centre d’Études Européennes, Sciences Po Paris, France
11/2013: Invited Lecturer, ‘Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights: Implementation of EU Justice and Home Affairs – Policies for Judiciary’, Skopje/FYROM (financed by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
09/2010-12/2010: Scholar of the 2010 EU ISS Visiting Fellows Programme, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
12/2007-03/2008: Associate Research Fellow, The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
10/2004–12/2007: Scholar of the post-graduate programme ‘European Integration 2004-2007’, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
03–05/2004: Intern at the European Parliament and the Permanent Representation of Austria at the European Union, Brussels and Strasbourg
EDUCATION
01/2008: PhD in Political Science (with distinction), University of Vienna, Austria
07/2006: SECURINT summer school on EU governance in the field of internal security, University of Strasbourg, France
11/2004: Master Degree in Political Science (with distinction), University of Vienna, Austria
2002–2003: Scholar of the European exchange programme Erasmus, University of Copenhagen
1999–2004: Student of Political Science (major) and a combination of History, Sociology and International Development (minor), University of Vienna
Grants, Scholarships and AWARDS
2011-2014: Grant of € 140.000 from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the project ‘The role of supranational institutions in EU Justice and home affairs’
2011: Winner of the European Foreign Affairs Review Special Issue Competition
2010: Grant of € 2.000 from EU Consent ‘Network of Excellence’ for language editing of PhD in view of publication with Manchester University Press
2007: EU Consent PhD Award 3rd Winner
2004-2007: Post-Graduate Scholarship, Institute for Advanced Studies
2004: International Research Scholarship, University of Vienna
2002-2003: Erasmus Scholarship
MEMBERSHIPS
- Member of the Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA)
- Member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the ECPR Standing Group on South East Europe and the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime
- Member of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
- Member of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA)
REVIEWER FOR THE
- Journal of European Public Policy
- Journal of Common Market Studies
- European Integration online Papers
- European Journal of Migration and Law
- European Union Politics
- International Migration
- Europe-Asia Studies
- Political Studies
- The International Spectator
- European Journal of Internal Security
- Journal of European Integration
- Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
- Journal of Contemporary European Research
- Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
- Politics and Governance
- Public Administration
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
- European Security
- Southeastern Europe
- Cambridge Review of International Affairs
- Ashgate Publishing
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTANCY
- Leader of a project on the role of EU institutions in justice and home affairs funded by the Austrian Science Fund (2011-2014);
- Contributor to projects funded by the European Commission (‘EU Consent - Network of Excellence', ‘LISBOAN – Erasmus Academic Network’);
- Adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament made under a framework contract with the Trans European Policy Study Association (TEPSA);
- External expert for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) on migration-related issues.
TEACHING COURSES ON (in German and in English)
- Immigration, Asylum and Border Management in the European Union
- Rule of Law and Human Rights
- The EU’s Regulatory Policies
- European Union and Europeanization
- EU Enlargement- and Neighbourhood Policy
- Qualitative Methods
- The Austrian Political System and the EU
- Austrian Politics and EU
- International Politics
- EU Justice and Home Affairs
LANGUAGES
German native speaker
Fluent, both orally and in writing, in English and French
