Prof. Dr. Andrea Ott (Coordinator EmergEU) is Professor of EU External Relations Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. Since 2011 she holds a Jean Monnet Chair in EU law. She has wide experience in legal consultancy for Dutch ministries and the European Commission in Central and Eastern Europe and teaches regularly on EU institutional law, EU external relations, enlargement and WTO law in the Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia and China. Since 1999, she is a visiting guest professor for International Economic Law at the M.A. European Studies of the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and since 2005 teaches a Jean Monnet Module on EU External Relations at Maastricht University. Andrea is IUS Commune programme coordinator of the research programme 'Integration, Differentiation and Flexibility: New Perspectives on EU Law and Policy'.  Andrea is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law and a member of the Ius Commune Research School. She is member of the editorial committee of Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and Member of the board of CLEER (Centre of EU External relations law).

Dr Luana Russo is Associate Professor in Political Behaviour and Quantitative Methods at Maastricht University, where she currently also serves as Program Director of the BA in European Studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2011 from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy) with a thesis on electoral geography. During her doctoral studies, Luana was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York, USA), and at the Euroepan University Institute (Florence, Italy) broadening her expertise in political behavior research. Following her Ph.D., she held post-doctoral positions at Sciences-Po Paris and Université Lille 2 (France). Luana's research interests focuses on elections, political attitudes and behaviours, political psychology, affective polarisation, and negative partisanship. She is dedicated to understanding how individuals form and express their political preferences and form their social identities and affiliations, particularly within the context of contemporary political polarisation. In addition to her research contributions, Luana has been actively involved in facilitating and organising research activities and networks. She is currently a member of the ECPR Executive Committee. Furthermore, she has co-edited the journal "Politics of the Low Countries," served as the chair of the ECPR Political Methodology standing group, and founded the Affective Polarization network (which she currently chairs). 
 

Dr. Giselle Bosse (Co-coordinator EmergEU)  is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at Maastricht University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and she also serves as a Fellow at the European Democracy Hub in Brussels. Her research focuses on EU external relations, particularly the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and Eastern Partnership (EaP), and the EU’s efforts to support democracy through the enlargement process involving Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, and in autocratic regimes like Belarus. She coordinates the national research colloquium on Geopolitics and Democratic Reform in Central and Eastern Europe (Netherlands Institute of Governance). She also holds visiting professorships at the College of Europe and the Diplomatic School of Armenia. She has been awarded several prestigious research grants, including an NWO VENI grant for her work on EU democracy promotion and an ASPASIA grant for her research on non-state actors in EU foreign policy, and leads work packages in two EU Horizon-funded projects (EMBRACE and INVIGORATE). Her insights are regularly featured in media outlets such as Euronews, Deutsche Welle, and NPO1. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom.