Upon receiving her PhD, Triandafyllidou held faculty and research positions across Europe at the University of Surrey, London School of Economics, CNR in Rome, EUI, and the Democritus University of Thrace. She arrived in North America at the beginning of the 21st century to become a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at
New York University. Following this fellowship, Triandafyllidou served as a Visiting Professor at the
College of Europe in Bruges until 2004 when she became a Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. She simultaneously served on the editorial board of
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies until 2012 when she succeeded Uma A. Segal as Editor-in-Chief. As a result of her research, Triandafyllidou was appointed the Programme Director and Coordinator of the Research Strand ‘Cultural Diversity’ at the Global Governance Programme in 2012. Later, she was chosen as an evaluator for DG Home policies on migrant integration and was consulted by the European Parliament on high skill migration policy reform. In 2021, the
University of Liège awarded Triandafyllidou an honorary doctorate in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship. ==References==