About Us
Marcin Roman Czubala Ostapiuk
Director and coordinator of the EPEU Module. PhD in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid (Department of Applied, Public and Political Economy; Extraordinary Doctorate Award). MA in International Politics: Sector and Area Studies (UCM). Graduate in European Studies from the University of Warsaw.
Currently, he holds the position of Lecturer at the Department of Applied Economics (UNED).
Among his research lines are the political challenges, history and modernization of the European Union, the Economic and Monetary Union, as well as the economic governance of the EU.
Mª Ángeles Rodríguez Santos
PhD in Economic and Business Studies from the National University of Distance Education (UNED). Doctoral Thesis Award granted by the Economic and Social Council (UNED).
Currently, works as a Lecturer at the Department of Applied Economics (UNED).
Author of the book “Monetary integration in Eastern and Central European countries”, edited by the Economic and Social Council, Studies Collection. Co-author of several papers on international trade and the EU economy, included in books and specialized academic journals.
Elena Casado García-Hirschfeld
Graduate in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Seville and PhD in Economic and Business Sciences from the National University of Distance Education (UNED).
She is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Applied Economics (UNED).
Her research area is focused on the International Economic Organization and the European Union, having carried out a research stay at the Directorate-General for Agriculture of the European Commission in Brussels.
César Muñoz Martínez
Graduate in Economics and Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid. PhD in European Union at the UNED (Extraordinary Award), he currently performs the function of Lecturer at the Department of Applied Economics (UNED).
His main research line is Transport Economics where he has published several papers related to the binomial of the community institutions and transport. Additionally, he has delved into other areas of the social sciences such as the tourism sector.
Juan Gómez Castañeda
Professor in the area of Applied Economics (Public Finance, Budget and Public Sector) at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology (Complutense University of Madrid).
Graduate in Political and Economic Sciences and PhD in Political Sciences and Sociology, both degrees from the Complutense University of Madrid.
He has held multiple teaching and institutional positions and has directed several Doctoral Theses. Moreover, he is the author of numerous publications and research on Public Sector Economics published in specialized magazines such as Spanish Public Finance, Public Budget and Expenditure, Tax Chronicle, and Financial Law and Public Finance.
His research areas are the Spanish budget and the Public Sector, European tax harmonization and the Economic and Monetary Union.
Mónica Puente Regidor
Graduate in Political Science and Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has a Law degree from the National Distance Education University and an MA in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics.
PhD in Political Science and Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid. Currently, she works as a Lecturer at the Department of Applied, Public and Political Economy (UCM).
She focuses her research activity on the analysis of the European Political Economy, the economic governance of the European Union and the role of economic institutions in monetary and political integration processes.
Óliver Soto Sainz
PhD in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Graduate in Political Science and Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid and Degree in Journalism from the Carlos III University. MA in Constitutional Law from the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies and the Menéndez Pelayo International University.
He is currently an Associate Lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid. Also, a member of the Complutense Institute of Administration Science (ICCA).
Among his lines of research are the analysis of vertical and horizontal accountability and the electoral processes. Also, the creation of agendas and its approach from the field of Comparative Politics.
Aleksandra Sojka
Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences of the Carlos III University of Madrid. In the past she has carried out a research stays at the LSE European Institute and the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University.
PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Granada, Best Doctoral Thesis Award by the Spanish Political Sciences Association (AECPA) and Prize from the Polish Ministry of Science.
Her teaching and research experience spans the fields of the European and EU political sociology, Comparative Politics and the European Union, with a special focus on the politics and societies of Southern Europe and Central and Eastern Europe.
Salvador Llaudes Cañete
Graduated in History (UCM), Graduated in Political Science and Administration (UNED), MA in Democracy and Government (Autonomous University of Madrid) and MA in Diplomacy and International Relations (Diplomatic School).
Associate Fellow at the German Council for Foreign Relations (DGAP), Co-Director of the Observatory on European Affairs of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative (IE School of Global and Public Affairs) and Associate Lecturer in European integration at IE University. He has previously worked as a speechwriter and advisor to the Secretary of State for the European Union (MAEC). He was also a researcher at the Elcano Royal Institute.
Among his lines of research are the inter-institutional dynamics of the European integration process, Brexit and Spain’s European policy.