Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax holds an ICREA Research Chair at the University of Barcelona and is Full Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London, where she serves as inaugural director of the (B)OrderS Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration.She is currently conducting research on Migration, Solidarity and Law as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fundamental Rights of the Hertie School. Exploratory transdisciplinary research on this topic has been published in the American Journal of International Law. She has published extensively in international and EU law at the intersection with border violence, global security, migration, and human rights. As a world-leading expert in these fields, she regularly consults for UN agencies, the EU institutions, and other organisations. Her work has been cited by leading courts, including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Belgian Conseil d’État. She is also Visiting Professor of the College of Europe and legal adviser and founding member of the de:border collective, focusing on strategic litigation. She sits in the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Migration and Law and the International Journal of Refugee Law. Professor Moreno-Lax has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the University of New South Wales, and The Hague Academy of International Law, among others. Her research has been supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant by the Spanish government, the Emile Noël programme of NYU School of Law, a Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship at the EUI, the Jean Monnet and H2020 programmes of the European Commission, as well as the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.