Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. Lilian is the Deputy Coordinator of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, the ‘Odysseus Network’. In addition, she co-chairs with UNHCR the European Academic Refugee Interdisciplinary Network (EARIN), established in the framework of the UN Global Compact on Refugees. Lilian has co-edited the Research Handbook in EU Migration and Asylum Law (Edward Elgar) and has published research in international peer reviewed journals (e.g. Common Market Law Review, International Journal of Refugee Law) and in seminal collective volumes such as The Evolution of EU Law (OUP).