Ismini Nikoleta Mathioudaki
Former Visiting Research Student
Ismini Nikoleta Mathioudaki
Former Visiting Research Student
Ismini Nikoleta Mathioudaki is a scholar and legal professional with a rich academic background and a profound commitment to human rights advocacy. She holds dual undergraduate degrees: one in Political Science and History from Panteion University in Athens, and another in Law from Nanterre University in Paris, complementing her academic trajectory with an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam.
Currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, entitled: “Different modes of control governing mobility as reflected in the systems constituting the contemporary digital EU border and their repercussions on human rights”, Ismini is deeply involved in empirical research at the dynamic intersection of border digitalization and fundamental human rights.
Her research focuses on the socio-legal implications of digital border control technologies, examining how these tools can lead to profiling and criminalization through bias reproduction and misuse by local actors such as border police and registration centre workers. Her primary research interests include cross-border digitalized governance, the relationship between human rights and evolving border mechanisms, and police accountability. Her work critically explores the violations that arise from digital border control, providing a nuanced analysis from a socio-legal perspective.
She conducted a research visit at the OII, during which she worked with Ana Valdivia, on the ETIAS system and its compatibility with a set of fundamental human rights, such as the right to asylum. The publication that will come out as a result of the latter, aims to deconstruct ETIAS and examine its qualities and characteristics from an interdisciplinary perspective, by conducting qualitative research with various of the actors involved in the project (FRONTEX, eu-LISA, European Commission). The aim of this research is to examine, from a multi-perspectival viewpoints, the impact that ETIAS will have on the lives of People on the Move.