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Dr. Cristina BLANCO SÍO-LÓPEZ : Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH and at the CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE. She is EU H-2020 MSCA – IF – GF Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project 'NAVSCHEN – Navigating Schengen. Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015'. - European Commission Grant Agreement (GA) No: 841201:
https://www.unive.it/pag/30982/
She works as Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the Chair of Eurpopean Politics and Society and at the Chair of European Culture of the University of Groningen. She holds a trilingual position with teaching responsibilities in English, French and Spanish:
https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.blanco.sio-lopez/
In June 2019 Dr. Blanco Sío-López was 'Oxford Centre for Economic and Social History' Invited Lecturer at St. Hilda's College, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD:
In March 2019 she was ‘Law, Justice and Society’ Invited Lecturer at Wolfson College, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
She received the 2018-2019 Council for European Studies (CES) – IMSISS Senior Visiting Fellowship Award at the University of Glasgow. Selected by the Council for European Studies (CES) – Columbia University, the EU's Erasmus+ programme and the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS) as 2018-2019 IMSISS-CES Senior Visiting Fellow specialised in Human Mobility Rights and European Integration at the University of Glasgow.
In 2017-2018 she was Santander Senior Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, where she remains a Senior Member.
She gave the 2018 Santander Senior Fellow Lecture on ‘The Historical Building of the EU's Free Movement of Persons’ at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD and organised the 2018 European Studies Centre Santander Conference on ‘Belonging and Displacement’ at the ESC – St. Antony’s College, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
Dr. Blanco Sío-López lectured on European Integration Studies, Comparative Regional Integration and Global Governance at the following UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD research centres and colleges: The European Studies Centre (ESC); the Latin American Centre; St. Antony’s College; Worcester College and All Souls College.
She also works as Leading Associate Researcher R4 at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) — New University of Lisbon and as Royal Elcano Institute R4 Researcher (project CSO2015-67213-C2-1-P). Dr. Blanco Sío-López was also a GYA Facilitator and Lecturer on ‘Qualitative Approaches to Human Mobility and European Integration’ for the EU Science Hub Evidence-informed policymaking – European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) Masterclasses at the ‘Evidence and Policy Summer School 2018 on Science, Policy and Demography: The role of population and migration for sustainable development in the European Neighbourhood’. These Masterclasses were held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.
RECENT RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS:
In 2017 Dr. Blanco Sío-López was Invited Lecturer in European Integration History and Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Lille; Jean Monnet EUCE Research Scholar in Residence 2017 at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet European Union (EU) Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh and Invited Scholar at the Faculty of Law of the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and the Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University –上海大学.
In 2016 she worked as European Commission Expert, Rapporteur and Evaluator for the EU Research Executive Agency (REA) – EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Programme (MSCA-IF); Expert and Evaluator for EU COST – Cooperation for Science and Technology in Europe – EU Horizon 2020; EUI Vibeke Sørensen Fellow; Salzburg Global Seminar Guest Lecturer and Fellow – SSASA 14 and Visiting Lecturer on Human Rights and on the History of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons at the Istituto per gli studi economici e giuridici Gioacchino Scaduto of the University of Perugia.
Dr. Blanco Sío-López was also Invited Expert on: EU Enlargement History and Political Communication at LSE IDEAS – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013 and 2016); EU Constitutional History at the Yale Law School (2016); History of European Integration and Imperial History at the All Souls College – UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (2016 and 2019) and the History of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the Schengen Area and the EU Free Movement of Persons at the Faculty of Law and at the Sydney Sussex and Darwin Colleges – POLIS of the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (2014, 2016 and 2017).
PAST RESEARCH AND TEACHING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
She previously worked for six years as Full-time Established Researcher in European Studies (R3), Principal Investigator (PI) and Research Project Scientific Director at the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe – University of Luxembourg, where she managed international research budgets of 3M € and 660.000 € as Principal Investigator (e.g.: EU FP7 projects: CUBRIK, Jean Monnet Action projects, Erasmus +, Digital Humanities EU CIP-ICT-PSP projects: ASSETS, etc.).
She worked as Lecturer of the MA in Contemporary European Studies and the MA in European Governance (Section ‘Regionalisms in World Politics’) at the University of Luxembourg. During her 6 years at the CVCE-University of Luxemburg she was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the project ‘Spain and the European Integration Process: Vectors of Convergence, Cohesion Factors and Shifting Paradigms’.
Dr. Blanco Sío-López also worked at the DG Enlargement (DG ELARG) of the European Commission in Brussels and at the US Congress – Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She was Research and Academic Associate for three years at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) in Florence (EU FP6 projects: NEWGOV, IConnectEU, EMEDIATE…), European Parliament Researcher (’50 Years of History of the European Parliament’ project) and taught European Studies for the Georgetown University in Salamanca.
Furthermore, she was a Lecturer, MA Thesis Supervisor and Member of the Scientific Committee of the MA in European Studies at the University of Siena and at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków and Adjunct / Guest Lecturer at the MAs in European Studies of the Universities of Siegen, Bologna, Maastricht, Salamanca, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) in Argentina.
She was also a Visiting Researcher at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg; the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), as DAAD Research Scholar; the George Washington University (GWU); the Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas (BKVGE); and completed the ‘Space Exploration Studies and an Astronaut Training Program’ at the NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville (AL, USA).
HIGHER EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENTS:
Dr. Blanco Sío-López holds both a PhD. and a Master of Research (MRes.) in History and Civilization — specialising in History of European Integration and Global History of the Present — from the European University Institute of Florence (EUI) as fully funded Researcher representing Spain at the EUI.
She received the ‘FAEY Best PhD Thesis European Research and Mobility Award 2008’ for her PhD Thesis at the EUI entitled ‘THE ILLUSION OF NEUTRAL TIME: Myths and Perceptions of the process of Eastward Enlargement of the European Union, 1990-2004’.
She also holds a MA Hon. in European History and Politics from the University of Edinburgh (awarded with High Honours, A) —within the ‘History of the Idea and the Reality of Europe’ Excellence Curriculum Development MA Programme, for which only 10 EU students are selected each year— and a BA in History from the University of Salamanca, for which she obtained the 2002 Highest GPA Award (A+), resulting in the 2002 Exchange Award of the Network of the oldest European universities at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg.
Dr. Blanco Sío-López coordinated and participated in numerous international research projects, conferences and peer-reviewed publications in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, focusing on: History of European Integration; EU Enlargement and the EU Free Movement of Persons; Spain and the European Integration Process; Comparative Regional Integration and Global Governance; Oral History; Critical Discourse Analysis and Digital Humanities, all from an interdisciplinary, comparative and global perspective.
OTHER CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS:
She is also Accredited Project Manager by the Prince2 Foundation-APMG; Verified Peer Reviewer by Publons and Member of the EUI-RSCAS Global Governance Programme (GGP) Network as participant at the EUI-RSCAS Academy of Global Governance. She was EUI Ambassador and Section Chair and Convenor for the European International Relations Association (EISA).
Dr. Blanco Sío-López received the ‘Official Representative of the 2005-2006 European Commission Traineeship Programme Award’ as part of 50th Anniversary of the European Commission’s Traineeship Programme, held at the European Commission, in 2010, in Brussels. She was also granted the Austrian Presidency of the EU 2006 and the European Forum Alpbach Award in Salzburg as Representative of Spain interning at the European Commission (2005-06 EC BLUE BOOK TRAINEEE and EUI RESEARCH FELLOW, DG ELARG). She received the 1998 Extraordinary Secondary Education Academic Award in Spain and took part in the 1996 International Academic Programme ‘Ruta Quetzal – BBVA’, organised in Bolivia by the Complutense University of Madrid, the Spanish Government, the EU and the UNESCO.