Dr. Armando Aliu holds a Ph.D. Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the ICU, Department of International Commerce and the European Union Law. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Competence, Migration Governance and Collaboration in the Balkans and Turkey: Migration and Refugees Issues from the European Union Law Perspective.” He holds a Master's degree in European Studies from the University of Hamburg in Germany. His M.A. dissertation is entitled “Controlling Migration and Hybrid Model: A Comparison of Western Balkans and North African Countries.” In his dissertation, he argued migration flows and asylum issues in the frame of empirical, analytical, and political comparisons of Western Balkans and North African countries.
Dr. Aliu was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2011-2014). During his study and research at the University of Heidelberg, he attended many postgraduate lectures and seminars in various faculties and institutes. Based on one year contract (2011-2012) he was a DAAD investigator in the Schumpeter Project: Constitutional Reasoning in Europe (The JUDINST Project: Assessing Judicial Institutions and Judicial Performances: The Case for Judicial Review) at Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. At the institute, he also worked independently on a project entitled “Hybridity Project: Innovative Governance and Controlling Migration: Triple Win Solution for the EU, the Western Balkans and North African Countries” (2012-2013).
In 2017, he was a Visiting Study Fellow in the Department of International Development, IMI at the University of Oxford. He has over 10 years of research experience and over 100 scientific publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, congress proceedings, edited books, book chapters, book reviews, project proposals, and so on. Since 2012, he serves as peer/reviewer for SSCI, SCI, A&H, ESCI indexed journals. Since 2014, he has been serving as a SEDIA funding & tender expert and senior ECAS EU project referee for the European Commission. He is an expert in the EU project proposals, such as Horizon Europe, Marie Skłodowska− Curie Actions (MSCA), European Research Council (ERC), the Programme for Single Market, Competitiveness of enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and European Statistics - Single Market Programme - SMP 2021-27 (formerly known as COSME), EUREKA; EUROSTARS, COST, Erasmus+, Research and Innovation Action (RIA), Action for Innovation (IA); Coordination and Support Action (CSA); ERA-NET; Fast Track to Innovation (FTI).
His research interests contain; migration and refugee studies, asylum and immigration law, collaboration theory, European studies, and the EU law, multilevel governance, morality and ethics, cosmopolitanism, human rights activism, global economic governance, World Trade Organisation (WTO) law, legitimacy and effectiveness, stakeholder approach, European industrial relations, Europeanisation, and so on. He strongly believes that science nurtures arts, music, and poetry. As a European modernist poet, he follows Modern British Poets (e.g., T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, E. E. Cummings, John Keats, A. E. Housman, and David Jones) and European Modernist Poets (e.g., Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Paul Valéry, Gottfried Benn, Gunnar Ekelöf, Srečko Kosovel, and Harry Martinson). He was inspired by the poetic principles of existentialism, humanism, romanticism, surrealism and absolute idealism, and he writes poems in a wide variety of forms; such as free verse, narrative poetry, pastoral poetry, sonnet, lyric poetry, and so on.
He is an Outstanding Peer of Tourism Management (Elsevier), Recognised Peer of Annals of Tourism Research (Elsevier), Globalization and Health (Springer), Journal of International Migration and Integration (Springer), Journal of Travel Medicine (Oxford University Press), Current Issues in Tourism (Taylor and Francis – Routledge), International Journal of Tourism Research (Wiley), Sage Open, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI), Innovation and Impact (De Gruyter Open), Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis), Tourism and Management Studies (Algarve, Portugal), Social Sciences (MDPI), Administrative Sciences (MDPI), and Sustainability (MDPI). He is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Business Policy & Governance, and Social Sciences Advisory Board Member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He is also an associate member in the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He was a CUSPE fundraiser at the University of Cambridge.