Academic Staff
Julian Ashwin
Macroeconomics, aging and longevity, natural language processing methods.
Lex Borghans
Skill measurement, Economics and personality psychology, Technology and the labor market
Arnaud Dupuy
Visiting MILE in 2026: Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg, and research fellow at IZA. Topics: labor economics and applied microeconometrics.
Bart Golsteyn
Predictors of educational performance: preferences, personality, and the social environment.
Steffen Künn
Applied labor economics: Environmental factors affecting labor market outcomes; Labor market mobility
Lenard Lieb
Macroeconomics: Empirical Economics, Time Series Analysis, Causal Identification
Karsten Mau
International economics, international trade, economic development
Michail Moatsos
Poverty and inequality: measurement of poverty and wellbeing
Mélanie Monfrance
Education: non-cognitive skills, learning and educational inequalities
Giulia Piccillo
Macroeconomics: Economics in Europe, Macro and Monetary economics, Belief Heterogeneity and Uncertainty
Diogo Lima
Macroeconomics and International Finance: sovereign debt and default, Monetary-Fiscal Interactions, Macroprudential policy
Mark Sanders
Economic growth, Europe, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Resilience
Trudie Schils
education economics; role and measurement of social-emotional skills; data use in education; research-practice partnerships.
Kaj Thomsson
Political Economy; Emerging Markets and Development Economics; Economic History; Globalisation; Applied Game Theory
Tania Treibich
Micro to macro from the bottom up: technology, trade, and industry and employment dynamics, agent-based models, complexity economics
Lynn van Vugt
Education, non-cognitive skills and school performance
Academic Staff - part-time and emeritus
Robin Cowan
Thomas Dohmen
Clemens Kool
Huub Meijers
Joan Muysken
Olaf Sleijpen
Tom van Veen
Lecturers
Jannis Besuijen
Leonhardt van Efferink
Tabark Eltayfa
Maisha Fairuz
Helen de Kock
Siavash Mohades
Gabriel Woldu
Jierui Yang
PhD Candidates
Roland Bouillot
Jacqueline Charpentier
Trinidad Hernandez Recabarren
Max Kikken
Brian Korthout
Marvin Memmen
Tomás Barreira Monteiro
Prescott Morley
Pedro Neves Rebelo Luis
Eoghan O'Connell
Jeanne Olla
Vera Ronda
Barbara Schirato
Sasha Serebriakova
Anmol Soni
Peter Spoelstra
Antonio Vicencio Betanzo
External and joint PhD Candidates
Ankie van de Broek
External PhD, teacher at teacher academy de Nieuwste Pabo
Topic: Online Guidance, Reflective Blog-Writing, Teacher Identity Development, Teacher Education
Supervisors: Trudie Schils, Paul Hennissen (Zuyd Hogeschool)
ankie.vandebroek@zuyd.nl
Lars Goertzen
External PhD teacher primary school
Topics: Formative Assessment in Education, Teacher Professional Development, Participatory Design in Education
Supervisors: Trudie Schils, Sylvia Heeneman (FHML)
lars.goertzen@movare.nl
Djoerd de Graaf
External PhD, researcher at SEO
Topics: economics of education, gifted students
Supervisors: Trudie Schils, Lex Borghans
d.degraaf@seo.nl
Debora Herveille
External PhD, (UWV)
Supervisor: Trudie Schils
Eva Kleifgen,
External PhD, (IAB Nuremberg)
Supervisors: Thomas Dohmen & Steffen Künn
Eva.Kleifgen@iab.de
Rendell Ernest de Kort
External PhD, VU
Topics: Economics Resilience, Small Island States, Development Economics
Supervisors: Kees Boersma (VU) & Mark Sanders
r.e.de.kort@vu.nl
Personal Page
Annemie van Loo
External PhD teacher primary school
Topics: Educational innovations, Innovative behavior, Teacher professional development, Teaching and innovation, Teacher Education.
Supervisors: Trudie Schils, Paul Hennissen
annemie.vanloo@movare.nl
Personal page
Trang Nguyen
External PhD, located at UNU-MERIT
Topics: automation, trade and development
Supervisors: Tania Treibich & Karsten Mau
ttnguyen@merit.unu.edu
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Office and Support Staff
Mike Simon
Silvana de Sanctis
Marion Muitjens
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