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June 1, 2022: 2022 LoGov-RISE Visiting Scholars
2022 LoGov-RISE Visiting Scholars
As part of the LoGov-RISE project, the Centre welcomed four visiting researchers in 2022.
Karl Kössler (Visiting Researcher, June–August 2022)
Dr. Karl Kössler is Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. In 2018, he was appointed as Member of the Council of Europe's Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government. Since 2019, he has been the Scientific Coordinator of the five-year EU Horizon 2020 project “Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay (LoGov).”
Alicia Sevillano (Visiting Researcher, July–August 2022)
Alicia Sevillano is a PhD candidate awarded a grant from the Spanish Ministry for Universities. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, 2020) and an MA in Democracy and Government (Autonomous University of Madrid, 2021). She is pursuing her PhD at the Local Law Institute (Autonomous University of Madrid), focusing her research on metropolitan governance.
Malin Nischwitz (Visiting Researcher, August–September 2022)
Malin Nischwitz is a fully qualified lawyer and PhD candidate at the Institute for Politics and Public Law (University of Munich). Since 2020, she has been academic councillor and lecturer at the Chair of Public Law, Business Administrative Law, Environmental and Social Security Law (University of Munich). Her research focus lies on climate change as a challenge for municipalities.
Carmen Navarro (Visiting Researcher, October–November 2022)
Carmen Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), where she focuses her research and teaching on local government and public policy. She is the author of several books and articles in leading international journals. She has worked on international research projects on local political leadership, metropolitan areas, local assemblies and local autonomy. Since 2019 she has been Vice-Director of the Institute on Local Government and Law IDL-UAM, and since 2020 the Scientific Coordinator of the research project “Public Policies and Services to tackle Depopulation.”