ITEM People

Academic staff

Name	Function	Organisation	Expertise
Benschop, Ruth	Bijzonder lector Informele Zorg	Zuyd	^{• Productive Borders: Artistic research of everyday border practices}
Bemelmans, Stefan	PhD-candidate	UM/UH	^{• Cross border pensions: relevant legal and fiscal aspects of a home state}
Bollen, Anouk	Director ITEM, Professor of Cross Border Pension Tax Law	UM/FL	Pensions and tax ^{• Qualification problems: between social security and supplementary pension} ^{• Towards a cross-border pension tracking service between the Netherlands and Germany}
Brüggen, Lisa	Associate Professor	UM/SBE	^{• Towards a cross-border pension tracking service between the Netherlands and Germany}
Büttgen, Nina	Researcher	UM/FL	^{• ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessment} ^{• YouRegion} ^{• Fair Mobility}
Cornips, Leonie	Professor	UM/FASoS	Language culture ^{• ‘Communication in multilingual workplaces in the Euroregion’}
Cörvers, Frank	Professor	UM/ROA	Education and labour market ^{• Foreign students and school-leavers in the Euregion}
Didden, Bastiaan	Researcher	UM/FL	^{• Qualification problems: between social security and supplementary pension (doctorate obtained)}
Geurtjens, Kim	PhD-candidate	UM/FL	^{• Research concerning outlaw motorcycle gangs and the integrated cross-border policy in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion}
Giarola, José Victor	PhD-candidate	UM/SBE/ROA
van der Giessen, Mariska	Affiliated researcher	NHL
van Goinga, Pieter	Promovendus	UM/FL
Heijnen van der Tier, Michelle	PhD-candidate	NEIMED	^{• Accountability in social work. A comparative study of accountability strategies for social workers in Flandern, Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Netherlands}
Heller, Kilian	PhD-candidate	UM/FL	^{• Cross-Border Liability in Subcontracting Chains}
Hoogenboom, Alexander	Affiliated researcher	-
Hoon de, Marloes	PhD-candidate	UM/FASoS	^{• The onward migration of asylum migrants in the Netherlands}
Hovens, Daan	Researcher	UM/FASoS	^{• EMR Lingua • 'Power dynamics at work; an ethnography of a multilingual metal foundry in the Dutch-German borderland'}
Klosse, Saskia	Professor	UM/FL	Cross-border mobility
Kramer, Sander	Researcher, PhD-candidate	UM/FL	^{• Towards a cross-border pension tracking service between the Netherlands and Germany}
Leenders, Denise	Affiliated researcher	UM/FL
Mazzucato, Valentina	Professor of Globalisation and Development	UM/FASoS	^{• Formal and informal social protection across borders} ^{• Youth mobilities across borders}
Montebovi, Saskia	Assistant Professor	UM/FL
Naami, Maha	PhD-candidate	LIMES/UM/FASoS	^{• Youth mobilities of Unaccomanied Minors across Border Regions}
Nelen, Hans	Professor	UM/FL	^{• Action research and evaluation of integrated cross-border policy regarding organised crime in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion} ^{• Project Cross Border Execution of Sentences between Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands (CrossBES)}
Niesten, Hannelore	Affiliated researcher	-	-
Noortmann, Math	Senior researcher	UM/FL
van Ooij, Eva	PhD-candidate	UM/FL	^{• Employment and Social Security of Patchwork-Workers in a De-territorialized Labour Market in the EU: New Patterns of Work and Mobility regarding the Cultural Industries considered in the Light of EU Law}
Reinold, Julia	PhD-candidate	UM/MSoG	^{• Understanding the decision of international migrants to stay or leave the Euroregion}
Schneider, Hildegard	Board ITEM	UM/FL	Cross-border mobility ^{• The Recognition of Qualifications in the EU: Blurring the Lines of Competences between the Internal Market and Education} ^{• Feasibility study on regional museum cooperation and regional museum pass} ^{• Employment and Social Security of Patchwork-Workers in a De-territorialized Labour Market in the EU: New Patterns of Work and Mobility regarding the Cultural Industries considered in the Light of EU Law} ^{• The influence of education on cross-border regional identity in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion}
Schaper, Marcel	Assistant Professor	UM/FL
Schmeets, Hans	Professor	UM/CBS	Social Statistics ^{• The onward migration of asylum migrants in the Netherlands} ^{• 'Communication in multilingual workplaces in the Euroregion'}
Schenetti, Cecilia	PhD-candidate	LIMES/UM/FASoS	^{• Soft EU Borders in Africa. How Migration Campaigns and Social Media affect Young Senegalese Men’s Migration Aspirations and Sense of Social Justice}
Schoenmaekers, Sarah	Assistant Professor	UM/FL
Siegel, Melissa	Professor	UM/MSoG	Migration Studies ^{• Understanding the decision of international migrants to stay or leave the Euroregion}
Sivonen, Susanne	Researcher	UM/FL	Cross-border health care
Smits, Jan	Dean Faculty of Law / ITEM Board	UM/FL
Tans, Ruben	PhD-candidate	UM/FL
Unfried, Martin	'Ontgrenzer', senior researcher	UM/FL	^{• Grensoverschrijdende stages in de Euregio Maas Rijn} ^{• ITEM Cross-Border Impact Assessment}
Vink, Maarten	Professor	UM/FASoS	Immigration issues ^{• The onward migration of asylum migrants in the Netherlands}
de Vries, Folkert	PhD-candidate	UM/FL	^{• The influence of education on cross-border regional identity in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion}
Weerepas, Marjon	Professor Fiscal Aspects of Cross-border Labour	UM/FL	Social security and tax ^{• Qualification problems: between social security and supplementary pension} ^{• Cross-Border Liability in Subcontracting Chains}

Supporting staff

Name	Function	Organisation
Bloi, Jacques Michel	Advisor external affairs	UM/FL
Coppens, Dorien	Student assistant	UM-FL
Dautzenberg, Marcel	Operations Coordinator	UM/FL
Dreessen, Franka	Communications officer	UM/FL
Graat, Claudia	Secretary	UM/FL
de Groot, Jacqueline	Advisor external affairs	UM/FL
Karstenberg, Roel	Student assistant	UM/FL
Kramer, Inez	Secretary	UM/FL
Mertens, Pim	Scientific coordinator	UM/FL
Mulders, Guy	Student assistant	UM/FL