Caso Castellón, Nicolás

Position 
PhD Fellow
Nationality 
Chile
At UNU-CRIS 
02/05/2024
Biographical Statement 

Nicolás Caso Castellón is a PhD fellow at UNU-CRIS and at Ghent University. His research focuses on conflict, disasters, migration and the intersection between them. During his PhD Fellowship, Nicolás will work under the supervision of Ilse Ruyssen within the Migration and Social Policy Cluster and will primarily work on the development implications of involuntary immobility. This work is part of the PATHWAYS project hosted at Ghent University.

Before starting his position at Ghent University, he worked as a Research Assistant at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)’s Migration Centre. At PRIO he worked conducting quantitative analyses for two high-profile migration related projects: Aligning Migration Management and the Migration–Development Nexus (MIGNEX) and Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI). For more information about Nicolás and a list of his publications click here.