Anna Triandafyllidou (born 1968) is Senior Resarch Fellow at ELIAMEP and Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She is Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002 and works occasionally as expert for the European Commission since 1999. Anna Triandafyllidou has received her BA in sociology from Panteion University in Athens, Greece (1990) and her PhD in the Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute of Florence (1995). She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Surrey (1994-95), London School of Economics (1995-97), Consiglio Nazionale per le Ricerche in Rome (1997-99), New York University (2001), Bristol University (2001) and European University Institute of Florence (1992-1994 and 1999-2007). Her main areas of research and teaching are migration, nationalism, European integration, media and discourse studies and her expertise covers Southern, Western and Central Eastern Europe including comparative highlights with the US. She has published more than 70 articles in refereed journals and chapters in collective volumes on these topics.