Professor Dr. Grazyna Baranowska has held the Chair of Migration Law and Human Rights at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2024. Her research focuses on disappeared persons, human rights violations at borders and memory laws.
Prior to that, she  was a senior researcher at Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, leding a project on missing migrants funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past she also worked for the Volkswagen Stiftung funded MEMOCRACY project (2021-2024), which scrutinizes the intersection of memory laws and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the EU-funded project on Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective (2016-2019). Next to her academic work, she worked as policy advisor at the German Institute for Human Rights, and was involved in the process of drafting the General Comment on enforced disappearances and migration for the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. In 2022, she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as an independent expert of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.