Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Senior Distinguished Researcher at the University of La Coruña (UDC) Spain as well as Principal Investigator (PI) of the ‘FUNDEU’ project, funded by the NextGenerationEU framework and of the tenure-granting Research Consolidation project ‘FREEMOVEU’, funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI). During the academic year 2024-2025 she will be a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

From 2019 to 2022 she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the European Studies Center (ESC) and EU Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA and at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project NAVSCHEN.

She previously was Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member.

From 2021-2023 Dr. Blanco Sío-López was Executive Committee Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA). Currently, she is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS); Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE); Full Member of the Young Academy of Spain and YASAS Standing Delegate in representation of Spain. She obtained her PhD in History and Civilization at the European University Institute of Florence (EUI).