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Daniele is a political scientist and migration scholar with over a decade of research and teaching experience in academia. He was a research associate at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn, where he received his doctorate in 2019. Until 2024, he was a lecturer at the Department of Government at the University of Essex (UK), after which he moved back to Germany to be a fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University Lüneburg before joining bicc as a researcher in the FFVT project. Daniele specialises on European Union studies and the politics of migration, including forced displacement, asylum and refugee governance, border controls, and the question of solidarity and fair responsibility-sharing. He has also gathered expertise on the political system of the European Union and on German Politics. In his work, he combines both comparative and theoretical approaches as well as aiming for interdisciplinarity. He is co-lead of the Forced Migration Studies Blog and chair of the working group “Europe” within the German Network for Forced Migration Studies. He has led research projects on migration governance in Southern Africa as well as on migratory movements from Africa to Europe during the Arab Spring. His work has been published in a variety of outlets like peer-reviewed journals, policy briefs, blog posts, and media interviews.