Dr. Radu-Mihai Triculescu
LMU Munich
Radu-Mihai Triculescu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Chair of Political Systems and European Integration at LMU Munich (Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science) and a researcher on the ERC Advanced Grant SYNCPOL – Synchronized Politics: Multiple Times and Political Power. His work sits at the intersection of EU migration and asylum governance, public administration, and street-level bureaucracy, with a particular interest in how timing and synchronization shape multi-level policymaking in Europe.
Radu earned his PhD from the University of Twente in 2021, examining how national bureaucracies interpret and implement the Common European Asylum System and what this means for policy harmonization across EU Member States. He holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations (2011) and an MA in International Affairs (2013) from Florida State University, and completed the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in International Migration and Social Cohesion (University of Amsterdam, University of Deusto, and University of Osnabrück) in 2015. In 2024, he published Assessing the Common European Asylum System: Discretionary Implementation and Street-Level Bureaucracy (Brill-Nijhoff).
Alongside academia, he previously worked as an Associate Policy Analyst at Migration Policy Institute Europe, focusing on EU asylum governance (including the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum) and related return/reintegration issues; earlier roles included public affairs work in Romania and advising the Romanian Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development on European and international affairs
Latest publications:
- Triculescu, R-M., Ivanusch, C., Röth, L., Goetz, K-H. (2025). Presidents, Commissioners, and Time Pressure: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Migration Communication by the European Commission. European Union Politics.
- Abassi, N., & Triculescu, R-M. (2025). The Crisis and Force Majeure Regulation through the lens of synchronization: institutionalizing the EU migration crisis response. European Politics and Society.
- Triculescu, R-M., Goetz, K.H., Röth, L. (2025). Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Journal of European Integration.
- Röth, L., Goetz, K.H., Ivanusch, C., Goetz, K.H., Triculescu, R-M. (2025). Responding in time: the European Commission’s communicative responsiveness to public opinion and functional pressure in the case of migration (2002–2024). Journal of European Public Policy.