Cintia is a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University. Her research explores encounters and spaces of encounter between women from different communities in post-conflict Kosovo, and how these may contribute to the process of conflict transformation. Before joining Loughborough Cintia worked as a research assistant at the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She holds an MA on Migrations, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism and a BA in Psychology.