Education:
-PhD Candidate in Political Science, Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Sant’Anna (2021–Present);
-LLM in Public International Law, University of Amsterdam (2015–2016);
-Thesis title: Is the application of asylum law in countries receptors of refugees during the ongoing Syrian war interfering with their right of non-refoulement?
-Bachelor in Law, University Paris Nanterre (2013–2015);
-Bachelor in Political Science, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (2008–2013).
Dissertation title:
Navigating the Digital Border: The assemblage of border technologies and their implications on the principle of non-refoulement and the right to asylum in the case of Greece
Research Projects:
–Infralegalities Project, University of Edinburgh, Department of Law (2025–Present). Research on algorithmic accountability and AI-driven governance in UK and EU border infrastructures, combining socio-legal analysis, fieldwork, and critical studies of migration technologies.
–PRIN Project “Shut-med: Securitizing Human Transit across the Central Mediterranean migratory corridor: shifting mobility governance discourses and practices in Italy, Malta, Libya and Niger” (2024–2025). Research on the securitization of migration governance and the role of AI technologies in maritime rescue and border externalization in the Central Mediterranean.
–Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG) (2024–Ongoing).
–Detention Landscapes (2024–2025). Participated in the spatial and visual documentation of detention infrastructures in Greece, including the Korinthos camp.
–Financial Inclusion and Digital Connectivity in Refugee Governance, Goldsmiths, University of London (2023). Conducted fieldwork in refugee camps in Greece examining the digitalization of asylum procedures and migration governance. Co-authored a forthcoming policy report with Martina Tazzioli on migration technologies from migrants’ perspectives.
–EURO-EXPERT Project, University of Oxford (2020–2021). Research assistant on the development of the socio-legal concept of cultural expertise and its application across European legal systems.
–Jean Monnet Project on EU Border Governance and Human Rights (2018–2019). Conducted research on EU migration governance, refugee rights, and the emergence of new governance hierarchies during the refugee crisis. Contributed to seminars, trainings, and academic coordination activities on asylum and human rights law.
Conferences:
-Sullivan, G., & Mathioudaki, I., “AI Border Governance and Algorithmic Accountability: An Infrastructural Approach?” Controversies of AI Society Conference, Algorithms, Data and Democracy Project, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9–10 April 2026.
-Mathioudaki, I., “Infrastructures of Visibility and Externalised Control: The ABSS System at the Evros Border.” COST Action DATAMIG Working Group 2 Thematic Workshop, Technologies of Externalisation in EU Migration Governance, Işık University, Istanbul, Turkey, 21–22 May 2026.
-ADiM Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Colloquium, Presented paper: “The Paradox of AI in Search and Rescue: Navigating Europe’s Maritime Borders” Lampedusa, Italy, 2024.
-Border Criminologies Annual Workshop 2024: Challenges and Futures. Presented paper: “The digital borderscape: Visibility, Invisibility, and the Politics of Migration Governance in the European Context.”
-Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Summer Training School on Migration and Mobility in the Digital Age, University of Tuscia, Italy, 2023. Winner of the policy paper competition with: “The proposed AI Act: the lack of migration safeguards and the interference with fundamental rights.”
-Historical Materialism Athens Conference, Panteion University, Greece, 2023. Presented paper: “The EU digital border as a governance tool: the multiplicity of the digital loci as a counterweight of free movement.”
-European Consortium for Political Research Research Methods School – Political Ethnography: Method, Sensibility, Writing, Hybrid, February 2026.
Publications:
-Mathioudaki, I., Montanaro, F. and Alagna, F. (2026) “The Paradox of AI in Search and Rescue: Navigating Europe’s Externalized Maritime Borders” Forthcoming in International Spectator (2026).
-“ Montanaro, F., Mathioudaki, I., & Alagna, F. (2026). Spaces of Exception: Health Protocols, Non-Governmental Sea Rescue, and the Border Regime, in E. Cusumano, L. Raineri, & D. Caballero-Vélez (Eds.). Varieties of Securitization: Migration Governance along the Central Mediterranean Route. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
-“Accountability” and “Data-Doubles” chapters in Migration Data Matters: A Keyword Approach to the Datafication of Migration and Border Control, Forthcoming, Liverpool University Press (2026).