Dr Agathe Piquet has joined as a post-doctoral research assistant to the NEXTEUK Project on the future of the EU-UK relations. The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Project is co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union. She holds a MA in Politics (Sciences Po Toulouse) and a MA in International Relations and Security Policies (Toulouse University). She recently completed a PhD in political science at Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, entitled “Europol, a European police? Creation and autonomisation of an agency” under the supervision of Professor Yves Surel.