Welcome
I am an Assistant Professor in International Relations and Political Science at the School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs at IE University Madrid. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University and have received a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Science at University College London.
My research is situated at the intersection between conflict studies and migration research. I want to understand how individuals and households make decisions to move, how governments and other actors respond to displacement, and what impact human mobility has in developing countries? I am also interested in how vulnerable populations - the displaced but also women, stateless populations and ethnic minorities - engage with the state after conflict and reclaim their rights in fragile settings. I predominantly use quantitative methods - spatial statistics, machine learning but also survey experiments and randomized control trials - in my work. I have conducted several surveys in the context of Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and East Africa. I have previously worked as consultant for the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement. I completed a MSc in Security Studies at UCL and a BA in Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
You can contact me at sigrid.weber@ie.edu. My CV can be downloaded here.