Profile

Vanina Ninova is a political scientist, doctoral researcher, and university lecturer at the with expertise in migration studies, refugee integration, and European studies.

Research Interests

Her research interests include international and return migration, EU politics and policies, and higher education.

Research Projects

She has over six years of experience as a research associate at the Center for European Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies (CERMES) at New Bulgarian University, where she has worked on Horizon 2020 migration projects and collaborated with international academics and NGOs.

She has coordinated and led projects focused on youth engagement and the inclusion of migrants and refugees, and has served as a mentor in a one-year visual anthropology program with a thematic focus on migration.