I am Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin (UCD), and a member of The Queen's College, University of Oxford. Previously, I worked at Maastricht University and Lund University. I hold a PhD from the University of Oxford, an MA from Yale University, as well as a BSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Read more about my background below.
First name: Farsan
English pronunciation: "Farzaan"
Persian spelling: فرزان
Last name: Ghassim
English pronunciation: "Gaseem"
Persian spelling: قصیم
Languages (in alphabetical order):
English (near-native)
French (advanced)
German (native)
Persian/Farsi (native)
Spanish (advanced)
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: University College Dublin, Ireland
Position: Junior Research Fellow in Politics
Institution: The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK
Project: How the world wants to be governed
Principal Investigator: Farsan Ghassim
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Maastricht University, Netherlands
Project: Decline and Death of International Organizations (NestIOr)
Principal Investigator: Hylke Dijkstra
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Lund University, Sweden
Project: Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov)
Principal Investigator: Jonas Tallberg
Institution: University of Oxford, UK
Result: No corrections
Institution: Yale University, USA
Result: Honors
Award: Academic Excellence in Global Affairs (for the top graduate of the program)
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Result: First Class Honours (best possible grade at the undergraduate level in the UK)
Degree: Highest German secondary education certificate
Institution: Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Germany
Result: 1.1 (top student of the class)
Awards:
Best student in the Social Sciences
Best student in French
Extracurricular achievements as high school president / student speaker
Extracurricular achievements as founder of the school magazine