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Professor Dr. Ariadna RIPOLL SERVENT
Professor for Politics of the European UnionUnion

Edmundsburg – Haus für Europa, Mönchsberg 2, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0) 662 8044 7601
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SCEUS – Salzburg Center for European Union Studies
Room: 1.08-1 (Edmundsburg)
Office hours: Appointment by email


Ariadna Ripoll Servent is Professor for Politics of the European Union at the department of Political Science at the Salzburg University and Academic Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS).

She has studied at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and the College of Europe in Bruges. She obtained a DPhil in Contemporary European Studies from the Sussex European Institute (University of Sussex) in Brighton (2008–2011).

Ariadna Ripoll Servent was a Postdoc Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research at the University of Vienna (2011-2013), before she became Junior Professor for Political Science and European Integration at the University of Bamberg (2013-2021). In 2019-2020, she was Jean Monnet Fellow and Research Fellow at the European Union Institute in Florence. Since 2019, she has acted as visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Her main research interests are European integration, EU institutions, informal decision-making processes, populism and Euroscepticism, EU internal and security policies (with a focus on EU asylum and migration policy).

Her  publications have appeared in high-ranked journals, such as the “Journal of European Public Policy”, “Journal of Common Market Studies”, “West European Politics”, “Journal of European Integration” and “Politics and Governance”.

Ariadna Ripoll Servent is the author and editor of four books, including “The European Parliament” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) and “The Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research” (Routledge, 2018). She is a member of the editorial board of the “Journal of European Integration”, “Migration Politics” and “Politics and Governance” as well as the “Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics” series.

For additional information on Ariadna Ripoll Servent please visit her  website.