Desislava Dimitrova
Visiting Fellow
Desislava Dimitrova is a graduate in Law (Universidad de Málaga, 2021), Master´s in Law (Universidad de Málaga, 2023) and Master´s in Diplomacy and International Relations (Diplomacy School of Spain, 2025). She is currently a PhD candidate in International Public Law and Constitutional Law and an attorney of the Bar Association of Málaga. She has been a trainee at the Constitutional Court of Spain for a period of a year and a half from November 2023 until May 2025.
She is an alumna of The Hague Academy of International Law and Yuste Foundation, granted with the Scholarship in memory of Maria Teresa Comellas and the Carlos V European awards- Angela Merkel research and mobility grants for European studies, respectively. She was also granted a scholarship for a one-year stay at the historic Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. Awarded two times for her research, in 2022 and 2024, she has participated in international congresses and seminars held in the Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Spain. As a part of the IUSGÉNESIS working group of the University of Málaga, she has participated in projects funded by the Ministry of Spain and Junta de Andalucía.
Her lines of research include human and fundamental rights of migrants at the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, the Autonomous Cities at the southern border of Spain in Africa.