Marina Vulović is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of International Relations at the University of Potsdam. Previously, she was a researcher at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), SWP Berlin, where she is currently a visiting fellow. She holds a PhD in Political, Societal and Regional Changes from the University of Helsinki (2021) and has been a member of the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP) since 2018.

Before joining the University of Potsdam, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (UK), the University of Graz (Austria), the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Germany), and the University of Belgrade (Serbia).

Marina works and publishes on international relations theory, populism and nationalism, EU enlargement policy, political developments in the Western Balkans, Kosovo-Serbia relations, as well as memory politics and conflict studies in the post-Yugoslav space. She is a frequent commentator on politics in the Western Balkans in German and international media and advises the German Government and Parliament on issues pertaining to the region.