Role
Full Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Bio
Luiza Bialasiewicz is Full Professor of Political and Economic Geography at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Director of the Ca' Foscari School for International Education. Professor Bialasiewicz is also a Visiting Professor at the Collège d'Europe/College of Europe, where she has taught political geography and geopolitics since 2013.
With a PhD in political geography from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2002, she was a Lecturer at Durham University and, from 2006, Associate Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2013, she became Full Professor of European Governance at the University of Amsterdam, where she also directed the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence) until moving to Italy in 2024.
Professor Bialasiewicz's research has focused on EU foreign policy and geopolitics and transatlantic relations. In this regard, Luiza edited one of the first volumes dedicated to the topic in 2011: Europe in the World - EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space (Routledge).
Member of the Scientific Commission ( WissKomm ) of the Austrian Armed Forces and Visiting Fellow of the Center for Maritime Military Studies of the Italian Navy. In 2026, she joined the Scientific Committee of the newly established Institut géopolitique d'études avancées promoted by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the magazine Le Grand Continent .