Camelia Tigau is currently appointed as a visiting professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, working on a research project on deskilling in professional refugees under the supervision of professors Randall Hansen and Jeffrey Reitz.

Camelia Tigau is also a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she served as a Coordinator of the Area of Integration Studies. Prof. Tigau has taught migration and international studies at UNAM since 2008, at a graduate and undergraduate level. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (2007) and a Masters in Communication (2004) from UNAM. She also studied journalism and communication at the University of Bucharest and the Schools of Journalism in Utrecht (Holland) and Aarhus (Denmark).

Camelia Tigau is a regional vice-president of the Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (GRFDT, India). She was a visiting researcher at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Texas (2016-2017) and at the University of York, Canada (2010).

Her work includes various books and numerous articles on skilled migration, scientific diplomacy, and Canadian studies. She published in the journals Migration and Development, Migration Letters, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy and Norteamérica, among others.

Her last book is called Discriminación y privilegios de la migración calificada: el caso de los profesionistas mexicanos en Texas (Discrimination and privileges of skilled migration: the case of Mexican professionals in Texas), 2020, CISAN – UNAM.

In 2022, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for outstanding women scientists at UNAM.