I’m a researcher at the Asser Institute, where I work at the intersection of business and human rights, international economic law, and climate justice. My work is driven by a core question: whose perspectives shape the global economic system, and whose are left out?

I completed my PhD cum laude at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where I explored how international investment law affects the participatory rights of communities living with the consequences of extractive foreign investment projects. My research has taken me from doctrinal analysis to qualitative fieldwork, interviewing community members whose perspectives are rendered invisible in arbitration processes. My thesis, described as 'innovative, invocative and insightful', won the 2025 Praemium Erasmianum foundation dissertation award. 

I now combine academic research with coordination of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR), and my broader work spans business and human rights, climate change governance, and empirical legal research. I am connected with  research communities at the University of Amsterdam, including the SEVEN climate institute, Sustainable Global and Economic Law (SGEL) and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). I engage with students at the University of Amsterdam through supervising the Business and Human Rights law clinic and master theses on public international law topics.

The urgent need to phase out fossil fuels in a just and equitable manner is keeping me busy at the moment. I am currently working on a qualitative case study on the Exxon v Netherlands arbitration concerning the closure of the Groningen gas field and engaging with civil society and policy makers around the Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels (TAFF) conferences.