Luzia Ferreira Santos

• Third Mission
• Internationalization of higher education
• North-South academic partnerships

Academic Career

Since June 2025

Research Associate at the Chair of Science  Studies and Innovation Research, University of Hamburg

2022 – 2025 

Research Associate, PhD studenet at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies

2019 – 2021

GLOBED Erasmus Dual M.A. in Education Policies for Global Development/ Social Policy
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, University of Bremen, University of Cyprus

2020 – 2021

Internship, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto

2017

Graduate Certificate in Human Rights (Postgraduate degree), Curtin University - Perth, Australia

1997 – 2002

Bachelor’s degree of Language Arts – Portuguese and English, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – Bahia, Brasilien

1995 – 1996

AFS Intercultural Programs – scholarship award, Frederick Douglass High School – Maryland – USA

Vögtle, E. M., Marinoni, G., Ferreira Santos, L., Berg, J., & Nakvatska, K. (2025). Internationalisation in the Digital Transformation: A study on the strategies, drivers, priorities, and challenges of virtual internationalisation at German higher education institutions (DAAD Studies). Bonn: DAAD. https://doi.org/10.46685/DAADStudien.2025.06

Vögtle, E. M., Marinoni, G., Ferreira Santos, L. (2025). Internationalisation in the Digital Transformation: Key findings of a study on the strategies, drivers, priorities, and challenges of virtual internationalisation at German higher education institutions (DAAD Studies). Bonn: DAAD. https://doi.org/10.46685/DAADStudien.2025.08

Vögtle, E. M., Marinoni, G., Ferreira Santos, L. (2025). Internationalisierung im digitalen Wandel: Zentrale Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung zu Strategien, Treibern, Prioritäten und Herausforderungen der virtuellen Internationalisierung an deutschen Hochschulen. (DAAD Forschungs Kompakt). Bonn: DAAD. https://doi.org/10.46685/DAADStudien.2025.07

Berg, J., & Ferreira Santos, L. (2024). Why digitalize? An Investigation of Virtual Internationalization Governance in German Higher Education. In A. Curaj, C. M. Hâj, & R. Pricopie (Eds.), European Higher Education Area 2030: Bridging Realities for Tomorrow’s Higher Education. Ada-Europe, 1998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75140-0_31

Ferreira Santos, L. (2023). Internationalisation in the digital transformation: A scoping review. Higher Education Quarterly, 2023, 1-18 (online first). https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12488

Vögtle, E. M., & Ferreira Santos, L. (2023). How to Unite Contradictory Visions of Sustainable Internationalization. IAU Horizons, 28(1), 50-51. https://www.iau[1]aiu.net/IMG/pdf/iau_horizons_vol.28_1_en__v5_1_.pdf