Distinguished Experts

ACROSS welcomed a remarkable lineup of distinguished visiting experts who delivered specialized doctoral lectures, engaged with PhD students through discussions about their research, and fostered exchanges with both students and promoters. 

By alphabetical order:

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Philipp Ager

Universität Mannheim
Integration, Health and History
January 2025

FRANCISCA-ANTMAN

FRANCISCA ANTMAN

University of Colorado
Left Behind, Migration Policies and Education
July 2025

DANY BAHAR

DANY BAHAR

Brookings Institution
Migration, Innovation and Technology Diffusion
June 2022

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TOMAN BARSBAI

University of Bristol
Experimental Approach in Migration and Development
April 2024

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CATIA BATISTA

Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Migration and Development: Lessons from RCT
November 2021

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SASCHA BECKER

Monash University
Forced Migration in History
April 2023

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MICHEL BEINE

University of Luxembourg
Cross-Border Mobility of Students
October 2019

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SIMONE BERTOLI

Université Clermont-Auvergne
Determinants of Migration Decisions
February 2020

Patricia Cortes

PATRICIA CORTES

Boston University
Immigration and Females’ Labor Supply
March 2022

Klaus Desmet

Klaus Desmet

Southern Methodist University in Dallas
Global Welfare Gains of Labor Mobility (December 2019)
Identity, Culture and Politics (December 2023)

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Frédéric docquier

LISER
Borders and the World Income Distribution
March 2020

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Giovanni Facchini

University of Nottingham
Political Economy of Migration Policies
November 2019

Lidia Farre

LIDIA farré

Barcelona School of Economics
Migration, education and gender
November 2024

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ToMmasso Frattini

University of Milan
Labor Market Integration of Refugees
October 2021

Jesus Fernández-Huertas Moraga

Jesus Fernández-Huertas Moraga

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Residential segregation and immigrant integration
November 2022

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Christina Gathmann

University of Heidelberg
Citizenship and Immigrants’ Integration
May 2020

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Paola Giuliano

UCLA Anderson School of Management
Long-Term Effects of Immigrants in America
December 2022

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Dominik Hangartner

ETH Zurich
Access to and Consequences of Citizenship
January 2023

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Clément Imbert

University of Warwick
Migration and Firms
May 2022

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Mathias Lerch

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Migration and Demography in Sending and Receiving countries
November 2022

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Joan Llull

Barcelona School of Economics
Dynamic Labor Market Equilibrium Models of Immigration
March 2024

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Fabio Mariani

Université catholique de Louvain
Migration, Institutions and Group Competition
September 2022

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Anna Maria Mayda

Georgetown University
Fiscal Impact of Immigration: Empirical Evidence at the Local Level
January 2024

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David Mckenzie

World Bank
Identification Applied to Migration
February 2025

Mariapia Mendola

Mariapia Mendola

Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Immigration Attitudes, Intergroup Contact and Perspective-taking
February 2024

Stelios Michalopoulos

Stelios Michalopoulos

Brown University
The Songs of Refugees
June 2024

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Katrin Millock

Paris School of Economics
Climate Migration
May 2025

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Mushfiq Mobarak

Yale School of Management, USA
Development, health and remittances
September 2024

joan-monras

Joan Monras

Barcelona School of Economics
Immigration and Wage Dynamics
December 2021

Caglar Ozden

Caglar Ozden

World Bank
Migrants, Refugees and Societies
May 2023

Giovanni Peri

Giovanni Peri

University of California at Davis
Growth and Inequality Effects of Immigration (April 2020)
Immigration, Innovation and the Labor Market (March 2023)

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Diego Puga

CEMFI, Madrid
Benefits and Costs of Big Cities
May 2024

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Hillel Rapoport

Paris School of Economics
Immigration, Culture and Redistribution
September 2019

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Sandra Rozo

World Bank
Forced Migration
March 2025

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Sandra Sequeira

London School of Economics
Economics of Forced Displacement and Socioeconomic Integration
November 2023

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Michael Siegenthaler

ETH Zurich
Impact of Commuting Flows and Labor Market Discrimination
April 2022

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Marco Tabellini

Harvard Business School
Climate Matching in Migration
June 2025

Jackie Wahba

Jackline Wahba

University of Southampton
Return Migration
October 2024