The Marie Curie Post-doctoral Researcher
Dr. Sahizer Samuk received her BA in Political Science and International relations from Bogazici University and her MA in International Relations from Koc University. She had another MA in European Studies, from Luiss Guido Carli in 2011. She did her PhD in Political Science at the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (2012-2016). In 2016, she became a research assistant for a project on supporting the development of harmonization (integration) policies in Turkey, employed by IOM Ankara. In 2017-2018 she worked as a post-doc at the University of Luxembourg for a Horizon 2020 project: MOVE. In Italy, she had experiences of being a researcher at the University of Pisa, UBIQUAL, working for a project on outward mobility and migration of the highly skilled from Italy. Currently, she is Marie Curie research fellow responsible for implementing the project “INSKILLS”, at the department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway. She has various publications on integration policies of migrants in Turkey, temporary migration policies of Canada and the UK, mobility and gender within Europe, time perceptions of authors in exile and highly skilled Italians living abroad. She is also co-editing a handbook on temporary migration with Jenna L. Hennebry and Michael Gordon.