Simone Baglioni is the Principal investigator and the Coordinator of H2020 project SIRIUS (www.sirius-project.eu) and the PI for the UK case in the Horizon project MATILDE (https://matilde-migration.eu/). He holds a chair in Sociology in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Parma, Italy. Earlier he was professor of Politics at Glasgow Caledonian University, in the UK, and has held academic positions at various European universities (Florence, Geneva, Neuchatel and Milan-Bocconi). He has studied political science and sociology at the University of Florence and at Sciences Po Paris, and holds a PhD in political science from the University of Geneva. Simone has extensively researched issues of employment and labour market, as well as migration and refugees. Beside Sirius and Matilde, he was a principal investigator also in the EU Horizon 2020 projects TRANSSOL (“Transnational Solidarity at the Time of Crisis” www.transsol.eu) and FAB-MOVE (“For a Better Tomorrow: Social Enterprise on the Move” http://fab-move.eu).