Short biography
Dr. Petya Alexandrova
Petya Alexandrova is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Political
Science. In September 2014, she defended her PhD at the University of Leiden with a dissertation
entitled Agenda Setting in the European Council. Earlier, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in
International Politics and History from Jacobs University Bremen and graduated cum laude from the
collaborative Master’s programme on Contemporary European Studies after studying at the
University of Bath, Charles University, Prague and Humboldt University Berlin. As a PhD candidate
Petya received training from the Netherlands Institute of Government and participated at the Winter
School in Social Science Research Methods at the University of Limerick. During the last four years
she taught courses in public policy, EU policies and research methodology at Leiden University and
contributed to the activities of the Montesquieu Institute in The Hague. Petya’s research has been
published in European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Journal of Common
Market Studies, Policy Studies Journal and two articles are forthcoming in European Political Science
Review and Journal of Public Policy.