Our staff

Director, Deputy Director, Associate Directors

Lecturers and Tutors

Visiting Lecturers and Fellows

Research Assistants and Fellows

Honorary Research Associates

Centre Interns

Administrative Staff

Professor Pascaline Winand
Director

PhD, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
pascaline.winand@general.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 220kb)

Pascaline Winand has published widely on the European Union (EU) and its external relations. She holds degrees in political science, international relations and diplomatic history from the ULB, Yale University and Purdue University. She has taught at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, the ULB, Belgium and as visiting professor in universities in Ukraine, Russia, Peru and the United States. She is editor of the series “European Policy,” published by PIE-Peter Lang.

Dr Natalie Doyle
Deputy Director

PhD, Monash University
natalie.doyle@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 75kb)

Natalie Doyle is lecturer in French and European Studies at Monash University. Her research interests are historical sociology, socio-political theory, and French politics. Natalie’s publications focus on European classical and contemporary social and political thought, with particular reference to interpretations of modernity. Her PhD and honours supervision includes contemporary European and EU issues.

Dr Marco Michelotti
Associate Director

PhD, Monash University
marco.michelotti@buseco.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Marco Michelotti is a lecturer in industrial and employee relations in the Department of Management at Monash. He holds a PhD and a Masters by research in comparative industrial relations. Before his current appointment, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations, Griffith University. His research interests include: employers' preferences in the labour market and social security regulation, international labour standards and comparative industrial relations.

Dr Normann Witzleb
Associate Director

PhD, European University Viadrina Frankfurt
Normann.Witzleb@law.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae

Normann Witzleb is a dually qualified German and Australian lawyer. Prior to joining Monash University in 2008, he worked at the University of Western Australia (2001-2007) and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (1996-2000), where he also obtained his PhD. His research focus is on comparative and European private law, in particular the area of privacy rights. Among his publications in this field are a monograph on remedies for the infringements of personality rights in the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany and “Auf dem Wege zu einem Europäischen Zivilgesetzbuch” (Towards a European Civil Code, co-edited).

Dr Heli Askola
Associate Director

PhD, European University Institute, Florence
Heli.Askola@law.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae

Heli Askola is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University. Before joining Monash in 2008 she worked at Cardiff Law School in the UK. Her main areas of research interest are EU Justice and Home Affairs, criminal justice, migration law and policy, human rights law and feminist legal theory. She has done consulting work for the European Commission and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and is the author of Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union (Oxford, 2007) as well as several articles on EU law and human rights.

Dr Susan Freeman
Associate Director

PhD, Monash University
Susan.Freeman@buseco.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 29kb)

Susan Freeman is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. She has extensive local and overseas teaching experience in international management/business and strategic management. Her research focus is international business strategy, cross-border international management, entrepreneurship, emerging markets,  services internationalisation and international buyer-seller relationships. She has published widely in international journals and provided a number of reports to industry on Australian internationalising firms.

Dr Rémy Davison
Associate Director

PhD, University of Melbourne
Remy.Davison@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 114kb)

Rémy Davison specialises in international relations, EU integration and international political economy. He has lectured at Griffith University, the University of Tasmania and Australian National University (ANU). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Monash University. Rémy has held visiting fellowships at ANU and the University of Leeds. He is research fellow at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne and was director of the Strategic Studies program at La Trobe University.  He has published widely in the fields of EU integration and European security.

Dr Eva Polonska
Lecturer

PhD, University of Melbourne
Eva.Polonska@general.monash.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae (doc 55kb)

Eva Polonska graduated from the University of Warsaw in Political Science and Journalism. She worked as a reporter for radio and national television news programs in Warsaw. She recently completed a PhD thesis in media and communication at the University of Melbourne on “Culture, Identity and Trade in the European Union: Regulation of Television Content in the Global Era.” She has lectured in media and contemporary European politics, democracy and global politics and is now a lecturer in European studies at Monash University. Her interests include media, cultural policies and the relationship between media and politics.

Dr Daniel Novotny
Endeavour Fellow (2009)

PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney
danielnovotny@hotmail.com

Daniel Novotny has joined the Centre as a Visiting Research Fellow. He specializes, in general, in international relations of the Asia-Pacific. He was awarded a PhD from the UNSW for his dissertation on the role of Indonesian foreign policy elite threat perceptions on the dynamics of the country’s foreign relations (a book based on the thesis is due to be published in the late 2009). His key research interests include modern politics of Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on Indonesia, the EU foreign policy strategy in Asia, Southeast and East Asian regionalism, Asian elite perceptions and foreign policy: theory and practice, the rise of China and India versus the Western powers: contemporary geopolitical developments in Asia-Pacific. He has held fellowships at The Habibie Centre in Jakarta, Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. In 2008-2009 period, he has coordinated a special research project for the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs focusing on the EU-India Strategic Partnership framework. For the last eight years, he has also been an Asia-Pacific correspondent for the Czech State TV Channel 1.

Alfonso Martínez Arranz
Research Assistant

MInter&TransSt, Monash University
alfonso.martinez-arranz@general.monash.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae (rtf 534kb)

Alfonso Martínez Arranz was born in Madrid, Spain. He graduated from a technological high school in a nearby town with special distinction. Alfonso is fluent in Spanish, English, German and French and learning more languages including Arabic and Chinese. He began studying Translation and Interpreting Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid majoring in Intercultural Communication and Arabic. After an Erasmus exchange in Vienna, Austria, and a bilateral exchange at Monash University’s Master in Translation and Interpreting, he obtained a BA + Hons equivalent with HD.

Amanda Crichton
Centre Administrator

MBusMgt, Monash University
amanda.crichton@general.monash.edu.au

Amanda has worked at Monash University for many years across several faculties, centres and in central administration. In addition to a Masters in Business Management, she holds postgraduate qualifications in Archives and Records Management and Human Resources Management.

Patricia Arnold
Event Coordinator/Administrative Officer

patricia.arnold@general.monash.edu.au

Trish Arnold has worked in varying roles at Monash for several years. She provides invaluable administrative support to staff and students of the Centre and organises the outreach program.

Centre Interns

Lillian Goldsmith

Lillian Goldsmith received a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University and is currently completing a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Queensland, whilst writing her Masters thesis in European and International studies at the Monash European and EU Centre and working as intern at the Centre. For more information, see Current research students webpage.

Katrina Murray

Trina is a student in the new Masters of European and International Studies at Monash having graduated from ANU with a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations) and is also an intern at the Centre. For more information, see Current research students webpage.

Aurélien Mazuy

Aurélien is a student at the IEP Toulouse. He took European and EU Studies units at Monash University and was the first intern at the Centre in semester 1, 2008. His role was key in the development of an outreach strategy of the Centre towards Australian schools. For more information, see School outreach webpage.