Elena Giacomelli
University of Trento, Italy
Biography
Elena Giacomelli obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations, participating in two exchange programs: one in Universidad de Valencia (one year), one in the University of Melbourne (one semester). She is currently enjoying and actively taking part in the Master’s degree in International and European Studies at the University of Trento. Within this program she studied as an exchange student at the Metropolitan University Prague and at the University of Adelaide. She participated in the research project "Current Migration to Europe: Research of Smart Population Dynamics”. She worked as an intern in the Australian Population and Migration Research Center. She developed her Master’s thesis on the theme ‘Environmentally Displaced Persons’ taking as case study the Philippines. She won a scholarship to conduct her research in the Third World Studies Center in the University of the Philippines. She will graduate the 13 of October 2016.