Orcid-ID:

0000-0001-9934-0491

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Selected Memberships:

• Member of the IMISCOE Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research
• Fellow of the International Migration Institute, a global network of interdisciplinary migration scholars

Selected Prizes:

• ERC Starting Grant, European Commission Horizon, 2025–2030
• Elise Richter Fellowship, Austrian Science Fund, 2022–2027
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission Horizon, 2017–2019
• IMISCOE Rinus Penninx Best Paper Award 2019
• PhD Award of Excellence 2016

Selected Publications:

• Müller-Funk, L.; Fröhlich, C.; Bank, A. 2023. ‘Disentangling Forced Migration Governance: Actors and Drivers along the Displacement Continuum’. International Migration Review, 58(3), 1462–1488; (lead author).
• Müller-Funk, L. 2023. ‘Violence, life aspirations and displacement trajectories in civil war contexts’. International Migration, 61(6), 209–227.
• Müller-Funk, L.; Üstübici, A.; Belloni, M. 2023. ‘Daring to aspire: Theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(15), 3816–3835; (lead author).
• Fröhlich, C; Müller-Funk; L. 2023. ‘Mobility Control as State-Making in Civil War: Forcing Exit, Selective Return and Strategic Laissez-Faire’. Migration Politics, 2(001); (co-first authorship).
• Müller-Funk, L.; Fransen, S. 2022. ‘“I will return strong”: The role of life aspirations in refugees’ return migration’. International Migration Review, 57(4), 1739–1770; (lead author).