Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert is a Senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and currently an associate researcher at the CERI. Her research is at the intersection of the fields of humanitarianism, migration, security and technology.

In the field of humanitarian studies, she has worked on Europe’s humanitarian borders, and written about “citizen humanitarianism” as a form of assistance seeking to contest both state-led responses and more organized humanitarian responses. This includes an interest in understanding how citizens and volunteers mobilize in times of crises, eg. during the European refugee reception crisis and the Covid pandemic. She is currently exploring the topic of humanitarian communication – reshaped by new technologies and evolving expectations.

In the field of security studies and migration studies, she has led and been involved in several research projects on the EU's external border surveillance, migration policies, as well as Search and Rescue efforts in the Mediterranean.

Since joining PRIO in 2011, she has been central in building up the Humanitarianism Research group and the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS), which she led from 2016-2020, and co-led from 2021-2023.