Grażyna Baranowska is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School in Berlin and an Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Before joining the Hertie School, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher in an EU-funded project on Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective (MELA). Her book on enforced disappearances in Europe was published by Intersentia in 2021. She has also worked as a Policy Advisor on enforced disappearances in the German Institute for Human Rights and supported drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances and migration of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Since August 2022, she is a member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.
She is the Principal Investigator of MIRO, a project funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, which seeks to identify and interpret international legal obligations regarding ‘missing migrants’ and accordingly critique and shape the practices of the EU, its Member States, and pertinent international organisations.
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