A.A. (Aurélie) Villanueva, Dr

Aurélie Villanueva obtained her PhD 'Culture in European Union Law: From Market to Society' from the European University Institute in 2023.

Beforehand she completed an LLM in European Law at Leiden University and specialised in European Competition law and Regulation at the University of Amstedam. She holds a bachelor in Law form the University of Strasbourg, France. She has been a trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission and a visiting researcher at Stockholm University.

During her time at the European University Institute, Aurélie co-founded the EUI's 'Thoughts for Europe' initiative, now known as Ponte Europa. With the motto of 'bridging academia and civil society', this initiative was born from her desire to bring research down from the scholarly confines of the EUI to the very heart of Florence and its citizens. Aurélie has also been a CIVICA outreach coordinator at the EUI, sharing the valuable experience of the EUI outreach activities to the CIVICA partner institutions and contributing to the design of the outreach strategy of the university alliance.