Ilona Lahdelma is a political scientist with a research interest in the formation of political attitudes, especially immigration attitudes. Ilona is interested in finding explanations for political preferences in historical legacies or in regional differences between people. Ilona has also a keen research interest in political methodology and public policies, and teaches methods and impact evaluation at Carlos III University in Madrid. Ilona received her DPhil (Phd) from the University of Oxford in 2020 and her thesis was about the local political repercussions of asylum seeker arrivals in Finland.