Lukas SPIELBERGER

2025- Research Scientist, Department of Social Sciences, 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, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, BE
2022-2024 Postdoctoral researcher in European Integration Studies / Political Science, Department of Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg, LU
2019-2022 Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, Leiden, NL

2019-2023 PhD European Politics (cum laude), Leiden University, Leiden, NL
2017-2018 MA European Political and Governance Studies (Excellent), European Public Policy Analysis Option (EPPA/POL), College of Europe, Bruges, BE
2016-2017 MSc Political Economy of Europe, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
2013-2016 BSc European Public Administration (cum laude), University of Twente, Enschede, NL

2024 Luxembourg FNR CORE junior grant “Greening Europe’s Public Finances” (€525,000)
2023 European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant (€5,000)
2021 UACES scholarship for field work (£1,500)
2020-2021 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
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)

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