Victor Martinez Reyes is an associate professor at the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, University of Warsaw, Poland. He is a political scientist (PhD) and psychologist (M.Sc.), he has specialized in political psychology and European Union studies. Dr. Martinez Reyes has carried out extensive research work on the functioning of the European Union with a focus on enlargement and the transformation of the political system in Poland as a result of the accession process. Dr. Martinez Reyes has written extensively on accession negotiations including books on the Mediterranean and EFTA enlargements. He has received numerous grants to support his research including most significantly from the European Commission, the Friederich Ebert Stiftung, the Soros Foundation and the Polish Government. As a result of these grants Dr. Martinez Reyes has been able to pursue research and study at the College of Europe (Natolin campus), the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Ohio State University, the Free University of Brussels and the University of Tübingen among others. At the University of Florida Dr. Martinez Reyes will be working towards a new publication on the procedures and process of accession negotiations, as well as providing support to the Center for European Studies by delivering lectures on the functioning of the European Union and the transformation of the political system in Poland since 1989.