Mario Kölling is Professor of the Department of Political Science at the Spanish National Distance University (UNED), and Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator at the Manuel Giménez Abad Foundation.
He has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for European Integration of the Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science in Berlin, the University College Dublin, the Institute for European Studies of the Free University of Brussels and the European University Institute in Florence. He was an associate professor at the University of Zaragoza (2015–2017) and a García Pelayo Researcher at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid (2011–2014).
He holds a Ph.D (European Distinction) from the University of Zaragoza, a Master’s Degree in European Integration from the University of the Basque Country (UPV) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Potsdam (Germany).