Radostina Primova holds a Bachelor’s degree in Integrated European Studies and Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Bremen, Germany.  Her academic education integrates a broad multidisciplinary training received during her BA Integrated European Studies with disciplinary specialisation in her MA Political Science program. In 2006 she studied one semester at the Universitá degli Studi Roma Tre (Rome) at the faculty of political science as part of the Erasmus programme.

Radostina Primova served professionally as an intern and as an assistant researcher in a number of institutions, such as the department for Federal and European Affairs in the Bremen Senate; Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin) – the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, and the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies in Bremen. During her internship at the European Department of the Bremen Senate she was involved in European projects related to the regional and structural policy of the EU, in particular the Hanse Passage programme which is a regional framework operation implemented under the Community Initiative Interreg IIIC.

In October 2009 she joined the IES to work on the GOA project. In her research she investigates coordination formats and accountability mechanisms in the field of EU energy market policy from a mulit-level governance perspective. 

Becker, Peter/ Primova, Radostina: „Die Reform des EU-Budgets zwischen Modernisierung und Pfadabhängigkeit“, SWP Zeitschriftenschau/ ZS 03, SWP Berlin, February 2009

Becker, Peter/ Primova, Radostina:„ Die Europäische Union und die Bildungspolitik“, Diskussionspapier der FG 1 2009/07, April 2009, SWP Berlin

Keil, Kathrin/ Primova, Radostina: „Die europäische Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion im Umbruch: Lektionen aus der globalen Finanzkrise und neue Aufgaben für die Zukunft“, conference report, in: integration Vierteljahreszeitschrift, 2/2009

Primova, Radostina (2011): Enhancing the Democratic Legitimacy of EU Governance? The Impact of Online Public Consultations in Energy Policy-making. RECON Online Working Paper 2011/01
http://reconproject.eu/projectweb/portalproject/AbstractRECONwp1101.html