Oliviero Angeli is a political scientist and philosopher at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden). Before joining the TU Dresden, he taught and conducted research at various institutions, including the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Oxford University, and the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He holds a binational doctorate (cotutelle) from the University of Saarland and the University of Tours. Since 2017, he is the scientific coordinator of the research center ‘Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy’ (MIDEM).

Angeli conducts research in various areas of political science and philosophy, with a particular focus on democratic theories and migration studies, resulting in numerous publications in these fields. A revised version of his Ph.D. thesis was published as “Cosmopolitanism, Self-Determination, and Territory: Justice with Borders” in 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan). He is also the author of the recent German monograph “Migration und Demokratie. Ein Spannungsverhältnis” [Migration and Democracy: A Tension], published by Reclam in 2018.