Every year, Ph.D. students spend a visiting research period at JIBS in our rich research environment with the goal contributing to the development of family business and ownership research.


For the duration of their visits, doctoral students receives a CeFEO Affiliation, spelled out as “Visiting PhD Student at Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO); Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Sweden”, they have full access to the resources of the centre, and they are offered the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations with the CeFEO members.


Doctoral students are invited to apply to the CeFEO Visiting PhD Student program.

CeFEO PhD Visiting Students

The following doctoral students visited CeFEO.

  • Maria De Las Mercedes Gracia Laborda (University of Murcia, Spain)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2025-02-01 to 2025-06-30.
  • Wenxin Du (Jinan University, China)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2024-09-01 to 2024-10-30.
  • Ani Hayrapetyan (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2024-03-01 to 2024-05-31.
  • Michela Bearzi (University of Udine, Italy)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2024-01-15 to 2024-05-31.
  • Sascha Neumann (EBS University, Germany)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2024-03-01 to 2024-04-31.
  • Sofia Brunelli (LIUC Università Cattaneo, Italy)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2023-01-15 to 2023-06-30.
  • Michela Bearzi (University of Udine, Italy)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2023-01-15 to 2023-06-30.
  • Lien Vekemans (Hasselt University, Belgium)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2022-01-10 to 2022-02-13.
  • Joyce Kox (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2022-03-08 to 2022-06-30.
  • Madeleine Meurer (EBS University, Germany)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2022-04-11 to 2022-06-30.
  • Ana Lucia Caicedo (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2022-09-01 to 2022-11-30.
  • Emmadonata Carbone (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2021-09-01 to 2021-12-31.
  • Mansoor Ahmed (Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio Chieti e Pescara, Italy)
    CeFEO Visiting PhD Student from 2021-11-01 to 2022-01-31.