Lukas SPIELBERGER

Research Scientist, University of Luxembourg, LU
Principal Investigator of the FNR CORE junior project Greening Europe’s Public Finances (2025-2028)

2024-2025
Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BE
Project: SINATRA (Principal Investigator: Luis Simon)
2022-2024
Postdoctoral researcher in European Integration Studies / Political Science
University of Luxembourg, LU
Project: Banking on Europe (Principal Investigators: Dermot Hodson and David Howarth)
2019-2022
Lecturer at Leiden University, NL
Research Assistance for Prof. Amy Verdun
10/2018-12/2018
Supply Teacher,
Rheingrafen Realschule-Plus, Wörrstadt, DE
09/2015-12/2015
Internship European Policy Programme
Heinrich Böll Foundation EU, Brussels, BE

01/2019-03/2023
PhD European Politics (cum laude)
Leiden University, NL
Thesis: Lessons from Europe for the study of international central bank cooperation
Supervisors: Amy Verdun, Matthew Di Giuseppe, David Howarth
09/2017-06/2018
MA European Political and Governance Studies (Excellent)
European Public Policy Analysis Option (EPPA/POL)
College of Europe, Bruges, BE
Thesis: In it together or après moi, le déluge – International burden sharing during the Irish and Latvian financial crises
Supervisor: Dermot Hodson
09/2016-08/2017
MSc Political Economy of Europe
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Thesis: Why has the European Commission not enforced the budget rules? Supervisor: Waltraud Schelkle
09/2013-06/2016
BSc European Public Administration (cum laude)
University of Twente, Enschede, NL
Thesis: What is dead may never die – How the Stability and Growth Pact was remade during the Euro crisis
Supervisor: Shawn Donnelly
09/2011-06/2013
BA Romance Languages/ French
Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, DE
05/2011
Allgemeine Hochschulreife
Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, Mainz, DE

2024
Recipient of a Luxembourg FNR CORE junior grant for the three-year project “Greening Europe’s Public Finances” (€525,000)
2023
Recipient of the European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant (€5,000)
2021
Recipient of the UACES scholarship for field work (£1,500)
2020-2021
Participant in the Europaeum Scholars Programme, member of the winning project group ‘Unmute the Youth’ (£5,000)
2019
Council for European Studies European Integration and Global Political Economy Network Annual Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars for the paper “International burden-sharing during a financial crisis: We will all go together when we go”
2017-2018
Scholarship of the German Ministry for Education to study at the College of Europe
2014-2016
Honours Programme of the University of Twente (30ECTS)MSH, E03 0335100Teaching experience

Own courses 2021-2022 Nederland en de Europese Unie (3rd year BA seminar) Teaching assistance 2025 Second Reader MA theses (MA European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe, Bruges 2023 Introduction to Political Economy (MA European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe, Bruges) Political Economy of European Integration (MA European Governance, University of Luxembourg) 2021-2022 Introduction to Political Science (1st year BA, working group) 2020-2021 Statistics 1 (1st year BA, working group) 2019-2020 Statistics 1 (1st year BA, working group) EU politics/ Nederland en de EU (1st year BA, teaching and grading assistance) 2018-2019 Nederland en de Europese Unie (3rd year BA, organisation of EU simulation game, grading assistance) Teaching trainings 2024 PhD supervision for postdocs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 2020 Uitvoeren van onderwijs (Teaching in practice), ICLON, Leiden University

International monetary cooperation;
political economy of central banking;
European Union public finance; Green financial regulation