Veronica Anghel works at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. She studies European integration and enlargement at the nexus between security-building and democratization. Anghel is assistant professor at the EUI Robert Schuman Centre a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Studies, where she teaches courses on Risk in International Relations and Economy and European Politics. She is a professor and course coordinator for the CEU Invisible University for Ukraine (IUfU), an initiative aimed to support the continuous education of many Ukrainian students whose studies have been affected by the war.