Olga Ceran is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Law and Philosophy on the NWO Vidi project 'The EU Fundamental Right to "Freedom of the Arts and Sciences": Exploring the Limits on the Commercialisation of Academia' led by Dr Vasiliki Kosta. Her current research focuses on establishing the content of Art. 13 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights through comparative constitutional law and international human rights law. She is also interested in the dynamics of Europeanisation - especially in areas where the EU has limited competences - as well as family mobility in EU law.

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Olga Ceran is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Law and Philosophy on the NWO Vidi project 'The EU Fundamental Right to "Freedom of the Arts and Sciences": Exploring the Limits on the Commercialisation of Academia' led by Dr Vasiliki Kosta. Her current research focuses on establishing the content of Art. 13 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights through comparative constitutional law and international human rights law.

In the academic year 2023-2024, Olga was a re:constitution fellow working on a project titled ‘Academic Freedom amid the Rule of Law Crises: Article 13 CFR and the Scope of EU Intervention’. In 2025, she co-authored the European Parliament’s 2024 Academic Freedom Monitor study, ‘Overview of de jure academic freedom protection’.

Before joining Leiden University, Olga was an Expert for Scientific Contacts at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Scientific Centre in Vienna. She was also a Managing Researcher for the EU-funded project ‘Fundamental Rights in Courts and Regulation’ (FRICoRe) at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a three-year judicial training project supporting judges and legal practitioners in enforcing fundamental rights at the national level.

Olga holds a PhD in Law (2022) and an LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws (2017) from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) as well as a Master's degree in Law (2016) from the University of Wrocław (Poland). Her PhD dissertation, investigating the nature and effects of EU law’s influence on national approaches to cross-border child relocation, was published in 2024 as ‘Cross-Border Child Relocation in the EU: The Dynamics of Europeanisation’ (Intersentia, the European Family Law Series). She also completed (with distinction) the German Law School programme led by Humboldt University in cooperation with the University of Wrocław. 

Olga is a Co-Manager of the Research Network on Academic Freedom and a Faculty Representative of the Open Science Community Leiden. She is interested in sustainable open science practices aimed at reducing global inequalities in research access and dissemination. She currently serves as a Senior Editor at the European Journal of Legal Studies, having previously held the roles of Media Coordinator (2017–2019) and Managing Editor (2018–2020). She has also contributed to work on research and higher education policy in Poland.

Research areas

1. Academic and scientific freedoms in European law

2.Different methodological approaches to Europeanisation, in particular in areas (primarily) outside of EU competence

3. Children and youth mobility in EU law

Publications