Michael Blauberger is Assistant Professor of European Politics and Political Theory at the University of Salzburg and a member of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS). He was previously Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI in Florence and researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Transformations of the State’ in Bremen. His research focuses on the impact of European Court jurisprudence on domestic and EU policy-making. His main policy fields of interest are EU internal market and competition policies. Blauberger has published in journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Politische Vierteljahresschrift and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. [[email protected]]
Caroline de la Porte is Associate Professor at Roskilde University, Department of Society and Globalisation. Her research interests are centred on the EU and welfare state reform, particularly in the areas of social inclusion, labour market policy and pensions. Her work has focused on the effects of social policy governance on EU member states. Her current research focuses on alterations to EMU governance after the crisis, ECJ case law for atypical contracts as well as social investment. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy and Comparative European Politics. [[email protected]]
Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science and President of the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Milan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Luigi Einaudi in Turin. He has published widely in the fields of comparative welfare states and European integration. His latest book in English is The Boundaries of Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2005). In Italian he has recently co-authored Alle Radici del Welfare all’Italiana (Marsilio, 2012). In 2014, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for a five-year project on ‘Reconciling Economic and Social Europe: Ideas, Values and Consensus’ (Resc-EU). [[email protected]]
Miriam Hartlapp is Professor of Governance and Organisational Studies at the University of Bremen. Before joining the University of Bremen in 2013 she was doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, worked at the ILO, Geneva, and led a Young Independent Research Group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. She is co-author of Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States (CUP, 2005, winner of the EUSA Best Book in EU Studies Prize 2007) and Which Policy for Europe? Power and Conflict Inside the European Commission (OUP, forthcoming 2014). [[email protected]]
Rike U. Krämer is DAAD Lecturer at University College London. Before joining UCL, she was a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Transformations of the State’ at Bremen University. Her research interests fall into the field of comparative law, constitutional law and international and European economic governance, particularly the interdependence between trade and the environment. In her recently published PhD thesis, she analyses environmental considerations in WTO and European procurement law. [[email protected]]
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen is Professor with special responsibilities at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on EU welfare policies, investigating integration and national implementation of EU social policies, including health care. In addition, Martinsen’s research examines the EU executive, transgovernmental networks, judicial policy-making and Europeanisation. She is currently the principal investigator of the Sapere Aude research project ‘Healthcare Regulation in the European Union. A Policy-Cycle Study of Complex Decision Making and Implementation’, funded by the Danish Research Council. Her work has appeared in journals such as Public Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and European Union Politics. [[email protected]]
Ellen Mastenbroek is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the chief coordinator of EUROPAL, a multidisciplinary research group focusing on Europeanisation of policy and law, based at Radboud University. Her research concerns EU implementation, EU decision-making and Europeanisation. She is currently engaged in a project on the role of the Dutch Lower Chamber in EU transposition and is coordinating a research project on ex post legislative evaluation in the European Union. She has published in journals such as European Union Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics and Public Administration. [[email protected]]
David Natali is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Science in Forli. He received a PhD in political science at the EUI in Florence in 2002. His work deals with the comparative analysis of social protection reforms across Europe. He conducts research on pensions reform and the Lisbon Strategy and the new Europe 2020 Strategy. He is also working on the field of social concertation (and social dialogue in broader terms) across Europe. He is a member of the OECD working party on pension markets. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, West European Politics and the European Journal of Industrial Relations. [[email protected]]
Susanne K. Schmidt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen. She served as the Dean of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) from 2009 to 2012. She has worked on standardisation and published broadly on questions of European integration, including the role of the Commission, competition and liberalisation policies in the EU, and mutual recognition as a new mode of governance. The policy implications of case law of the European Court of Justice at the European and the national level are the current focus of her work. She has published in journals such as Journal of Public Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, European Union Politics, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and German Politics. [[email protected]]
Aneta Spendzharova is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Maastricht University. Her main research interests are in regulatory governance, banking supervision in the EU and the EU policy process. Her work has appeared in Journal of Common Market Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of European Public Policy and West European Politics. She is author of Regulating Banks in Central and Eastern Europe through Crisis and Boom (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2014). [[email protected]]
Nikolay Vasev is a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. His dissertation centred on the implementation of the Patients’ Rights Directive in the Austrian and Bulgarian healthcare systems. His PhD dissertation is part of the ‘Healthcare Regulation in the European Union. A Policy-Cycle Study of Complex Decision Making and Implementation’ project. [[email protected]]
Esther Versluis is Associate Professor of European Regulatory Governance at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. Her research concentrates on the implementation of EU policy, and more specifically on the role EU agencies play therein. In addition, she concentrates on questions related to the regulation of risks. Her work has been published in, amongst others, the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics and European Journal of Risk Regulation. [[email protected]]
Hans Vollaard is Assistant Professor of Dutch and European Politics at Leiden University. His research interests focus on Euroscepticism in the Netherlands, European disintegration, (European) health policies and Christianity in Dutch politics. He has recently published in Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and Journal of Politics and Religion. He has also co-edited several volumes, including European Integration and Consensus Politics in the Low Countries (with Jan Beyers and Patrick Dumont, Routledge, forthcoming 2014). [[email protected]]
Karsten Vrangbæk is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. He is also Head of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP) at the University of Copenhagen. His current research projects include comparisons of performance management for hospitals in England, Germany and Denmark, comparisons of accountability and welfare reforms in Norway, Denmark and Germany and the analysis of the consequences of privatisation and the use of market mechanisms in welfare sectors. [[email protected]]