Olga Ceran is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Europa Institute of Leiden University. She is working on the NWO Vidi project 'The EU Fundamental Right to "Freedom of the Arts and Sciences": Exploring the Limits on the Commercialisation of Academia' led by Dr Vasiliki Kosta. Her research interests include EU law, fundamental rights, and methodological approaches to EU law and Europeanisation, in particular in areas (primarily) outside of EU competence (such as higher education or family law).

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Olga Ceran is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the NWO Vidi project 'The EU Fundamental Right to "Freedom of the Arts and Sciences": Exploring the Limits on the Commercialisation of Academia' led by Dr Vasiliki Kosta. She holds a PhD in Law and an LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) as well as a master's degree in law from the University of Wrocław (Poland). She also completed (with distinction) the German Law School programme led by the Humboldt University in cooperation with the University of Wrocław.

Before joining Leiden University, Olga was Managing Researcher for the EU-funded FRICoRe Project (Fundamental Rights in Courts and Regulation) at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2018-2020, she was Managing Editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies. She has also experience in policy work on academic topics in the Polish context.

Her current research at the Leiden University focuses on establishing the content of Art. 13 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights by employing comparative constitutional law and international human rights law, and its underlying philosophical rationale. Her broader research interests include EU law, fundamental rights, and methodological approaches to EU law and Europeanisation, in particular in areas (primarily) outside of EU competence (such as higher education or family law).

In March 2022, Olga successfully defended her PhD thesis titled 'Cross-Border Child Relocation. National Law in a United Europe'. In her dissertation she investigated the nature and effects of EU law’s influence on approaches to cross-border child relocation in Germany, Poland, and England and Wales. She is currently working on a book publication of the thesis.