The Centre welcomes applications of Visiting Researchers (PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and senior academics) who undertake research in our areas of expertise: promotion and protection of human rights at the international, regional, national and local level; human rights education, human security; migration, asylum and refugee law; and international humanitarian law. Visiting Researchers should ideally stay between one and six months. While we cannot provide financial assistance and Visiting Researchers are expected to cover their travel and living costs, they will have access to the university's facilities. Those in need of financial assistance should consider applying through the fellowship program of the Law Faculty (for senior and junior fellows). Visiting Researchers are expected to present their work, are encouraged to contribute to teaching and other activities and organize events, and may consider the Working Paper Series of the Law Faculty to publish their research. Please contact Dr. Lisa Heschl (lisa.heschl(at)uni-graz.at) for further inquries.
Past Visiting Researchers
Kamilla Galicz
PhD researcher, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, research on health and migration.
Edilu Shona Dikale
Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Law, Hawassa University, Ethiopia, former Dean of the College of Law and Governance, Hawassa University, judge at the high court of the then Sidama Zone, Ethiopia.
Svitlana Andreichenko
Head of the Department of international law and comparative law at International Humanitarian University, Professor at the Department of International Law and European Law at the National University "Odessa Law Academy" (Odessa, Ukraine).
Hoitsimolimo Mutlokwa
PhD candidate in public law at the Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, with doctoral research on "Local Governments Pursuit to Social Inclusion: Perspectives from the South African and Turkish Legal and Policy Frameworks".
Elshaday K. Woldeyesus
Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, with doctoral research on political representation of women in Ethiopia.
Irina Crivet
PhD candidate on the Koç University Public Law program, where she researched the dynamics of compliance with the case-law of the two new United Nations Treaty Bodies.
Nino Parsadanishvili
Head of the Migration Competence Centre and invited Lecturer of the Master's Program in migration management at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia.
Fasil Mulatu Gessesse
PhD Candidate at the University of Western Cape, Faculty of Law, with research on the protection of child migrants in Africa.
Fatma Kassem-Agbaria
PhD from the Department of Behavioral Science at Ben-Gurion University, working on Palestinian and Jewish Israeli women dialogue.
Zerihun Yimer Geleta
Assistant Professor at the School of Law and Federalism (SLF) of the Ethiopian Civil Service University (ECSU), with research on human rights and development in Ethiopia.
Sabiha Shala
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Research at the University of "Haxhi Zeka" Peja (UHZ), Kosovo.
Gjylbehare Bella Murati
Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Diplomatic Law at Haxhi Zeka University, Kosovo.
Tsige Gebremichael
PhD resesarcher at the Centre for Human Rights of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Behaylu Girma
Mekelle University and PhD researcher from the Addis Ababa University Centre for Human Right Studies, Ethiopia.
Mihretab Mekonnen Beyene
PhD candidate at the Addis Ababa University, Center for Human Rights, Ethiopia.
Elsabet Samuel Tadesse
PhD researcher at the Centre for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Worku Yaze Wodage
assistant professor of law at the Law School of Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia.
Anchinesh Shiferaw
LL.M. in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and LL.B. from the Faculty of Law of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Girum Kinfemichael Gebremariam
senior lecturer at the Ethiopian Civil Service University (ECSU), Institute of Federalism and Legal Studies.
Ruslan Sharipov
master student at the Law faculty of Kazan Federal University (Russia).
Sisay Mengistie Addisu
LL.M. in Human Rights Law and M.A. in Federalism and Local Government Studies, lecturer in federalism and governance studies as well as a PhD candidate in Human Rights at the College of Law and Governance Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Tesfaye Abate Abebe
LL.B. and LL.M. Addis Ababa University, School of Law, Ethiopia, Assistant Professor and Head of the School of Law and Federalism at the Ethiopian Civil Service University.
Mekdes Tadele Woldeyohannes
Assistant Professor of law at the Ethiopian Civil Service University, School of Law and Federalism.
