Marie Gabenisch (M.)
Marie Gabenisch is a PhD Candidate in Criminology at Maastricht University. She conducts research as part of COMCRIM, an innovative, public-private and interdisciplinary project, aimed at detecting organised crime in unconventional data sources such as banking records, follow the money and discern criminal networks. Her thesis focuses on the analysis of the roles, images, and understandings of the perpetrator-victim-facilitator triad in crimes that undermine democracy and the rule of law, including human trafficking, money laundering, and corruption. Marie is supervised in her research by Prof. Dr. Mr. Drs. Jill Coster van Voorhout (Maastricht University) and Dr. Yarin Eski (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Expertises
Her research interests include:
- Criminological Ethnography
- Human Trafficking, Money Laundering and Corruption
- "Ondermijning"/Crimes that Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law
- Terrorism and War Studies
- International Relations
Career history
Marie holds Master’s degrees in International Relations from Sciences Po Bordeaux, Empirical Social and Political Research from the University of Stuttgart (2017-2022) and Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security from Reichman University (2022-2023). She developed her taste for societally impactful research in the security field at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) and the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).