Moritz Baumgärtel is an assistant professor at University College Roosevelt (UCR) and a fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University. Baumgärtel holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Université libre de Bruxelles, an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and an LLM in Public International Law (cum laude) from Utrecht University. He is also an alumnus of UCR (summa cum laude), where he studied law, sociology, and international relations for his undergraduate degree.

In the past, Baumgärtel was a lecturer at University College Utrecht and Tilburg Law School. He was also a researcher at Utrecht University and the Université libre de Bruxelles and held visiting positions at the law schools of the University of Michigan, Duke University, and iCourts at the University of Copenhagen. In 2021, he was a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar at the Law School of the University of California in Los Angeles.

Baumgärtel is the author of Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and the editor of Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance (with Sara Miellet, Cambridge University Press, 2022)