Elise Feron is Docent and senior research fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (Tampere University, Finland). She is an invited professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium), the University of Turin (Italy), the Academic School of Yerevan (Armenia), Sciences Po Lille (France) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Before moving to Finland, she held permanent positions at the University of Kent (UK) and at Sciences Po Lille (France). Her main research interests include feminist peace research, conflict-generated diaspora politics, as well as the multiple entanglements between conflict, violence and peace. She has published widely on these issues. She has collected data in various conflict areas, such as Eastern Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, the South Caucasus and the Balkans, among other places. She has chaired 7 major international projects over the past 15 years, among which two EU FP6 and FP7 projects, two EuropeAid projects, one KONE Foundation project, and two Academy of Finland projects. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, 4 monographs and 10 edited or coedited books and journal special issues. She is also the author of around 30 policy briefs and research reports, and more than a hundred conference papers.

She has extensive teaching and supervision experience: over the past 25 years, she has taught more than 45 different courses at all university levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate and PhD levels, and in 13 different countries (Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Burundi, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, & the UK). She has extensive experience in developing full curricula and has convened 5 MA programs. In addition, to date she has supervised 9 PhD students to completion, is currently supervising 4 PhD students, and has participated in a dozen PhD students' juries. She has also supervised 12 post-docs, and over 300 MA students.