Grażyna Baranowska

Grażyna Baranowska is a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She is also a Research Fellow with the MIRO Project and previously held roles as a senior researcher at the Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on migration law, human rights, and enforced disappearances, with notable projects including the EU-funded 'Missing Migrants' initiative and the Volkswagen Stiftung-backed MEMOCRACY project analyzing memory laws and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.

Her research has contributed to UN policy frameworks, including drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances and migration for the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. In 2022, she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as an independent expert for the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. She has also served as a policy advisor at the German Institute for Human Rights.

• Grants & Projects: EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Volkswagen Stiftung (MEMOCRACY), EU Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective.
• Labs/Teams: Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights, MIRO Project.

Her interdisciplinary work bridges academia and policy, addressing critical issues in migration governance, human rights enforcement, and memory politics.