Current PhD Candidates
Bachir Saleh Azzam
Project ‘Impact of Politicization on the Functioning of Weapons of Mass Destruction-Specialized Intergovernmental Organisations’
Supervisors: Prof Hylke Dijkstra and Dr Yf Reykers
Since October 2023
Daniele Bregoli
Project ‘Global Europe and the Sahel. The migration-development nexus and the effectiveness of EU border externalisation’
Supervisors: Dr Assem Dandashly and Dr Karlijn Haagsman
Since October 2023
Pétur Gunnarsson
Project ‘Differentiation and alignment of European non-EU members to EU foreign policy’
Supervisors: Prof Sophie Vanhoonacker and Dr Yf Reykers
Since October 2023
Robert Tyler
Project ‘Historical Memory and Central and Eastern European Countries’ Foreign Policies towards Russia’
Supervisors: Dr Gergana Noutcheva and Dr Ferenc Laczo
Since October 2023
Buddy Janssen
Project ‘Analysing the EU’s approach to cybersecurity as a corner-stone of digital sovereignty’
Supervisors: Dr Paul Stephenson and Dr Marielle Wijermars
Since October 2022
Giorgio Micheletti
Project ‘The EU Digital Policy and the turbulent Road to Digital Sovereignty – An initial Evaluation’
Supervisors: Prof Sally Wyatt and Dr Eli Sapir
Since October 2022
Igor Sarkissian
Project ‘Geoeconomics & power distribution in the European Union’
Supervisors: Prof Sophie Vanhoonacker and Dr Johan Adriaensen
Since October 2022
Antonio Spissu
Project ‘Global Stablecoins: the politics of domestic rule-making and international coordination’
Supervisors: Dr Aneta Spendzharova and Dr Toon van Overbeke
Since October 2022
Samuele Crosetti
Project ‘Bank resolution regimes and financial stability: recent evolution, public actors and future challenges’
Supervisors: Prof Esther Versluis and Dr Aneta Spendzharova
Since October 2021
Ann-Kristin Matthé
Project ‘Internationalisation Strategies in higher education – perceptions and practices.’
Supervisors: Dr Patrick Bijsmans and Dr Andreea Nastase
Since October 2021
Susanne Reither
Project ‘EU mission-oriented policies for the transition to sustainable development and the nexus between public investment and private sustainable finance’
Supervisors: Dr Aneta Spendzharova and Dr Elissaveta Radulova
Since October 2021
Teresa Vázquez López
Project ‘Winning from crises? An examination of the rise of the European Commission as a political entrepreneur and its dialogue with the pharmaceutical industry during the last two health crises’
Supervisors: Prof Esther Versluis and Dr Paul Stephenson
Since October 2021
Tomasz Jerzyniak
Project ‘Energy Power Europe. Can the EU lead the global clean energy transition?’
Supervisors: Dr Anna Herranz Surrallés and Dr Clara Weinhardt
Since October 2020
Aniek Berendsen-Marissink
Project ‘Reweighing the Re-balance.The Effect of External Political Discourse on European Defence Policy Development: the American Re-balance’
Supervisors: Prof Sophie Vanhoonacker and Dr Anna Herranz Surralles
Since October 2019
Daniel Wennick
Project ‘Paradigm shifts in EUs climate policy 2005-2018 – a comparative historical institutional analysis of phase 1-4 of the EU ETS’
Supervisors: Prof Thomas Christiansen and Dr Anna Herranz Surrallés
Since October 2018
