Theresa Kuhn is Full Professor /Hoogleraar at the Capacity group European Studies, University of Amsterdam. She teaches both in the BA and MA programs in European Studies, and since September 2024, she has been the Director of ACES. Previously, she was associate professor in political science at UvA,  worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford and at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Theresa Kuhn obtained a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, in 2011.

Using survey research and experimental methods, Theresa Kuhn studies how citizens react to globalization and European integration in their political attitudes and collective identities. Her research has been recognized with a number of prizes, including the UACES best book prize for her book Experiencing European Integration. Transnational Lives and European Identity (Oxford University Press 2015) and the CES Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award for the most significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of Europe for a scholar under the age of 40.

For further information including publications, teaching and research projects, please visit Theresa's personal website.

of these realms influence each other, and in particular whether and how economic interdependence, social protection, and democracy can be rendered compatible or even mutually reinforcing.  

Burgoon's teaching focuses on general political science, political economy, international relations, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. The key goal of that teaching is to help students want and know how to use the theoretical and empirical tools of social science to explore political life, and to do so in the service of human purposes. 

Current positions

• Professor of Political Economy at the Dept. of Political Science, UvA
• Member of AISSR Programme Group, Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV)
• Co-director of Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES)
• Member of Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)
• Member of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)
• Secretary and Treasurer (of Board of Directors) Dialogue Advisory Group (DAG)

Education

• PhD in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1998 (see tab downloads for dissertation)

Director of ACES. Bialasiewicz is Professor of European Governance in the Department of European Studies. From 2013-2018, she held a Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Relations in the same Department.

Since 2013, she is also permanent Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Natolin where she teaches an annual course on European Geopolitics. Prior to moving to the Netherlands, she was Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and, previous, Lecturer in Geography at Durham University. She has held numerous visiting appointments at universities and institutes of advanced study in Europe and North America, most recently as Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna (2015-2016 and 2018-2019).

Her research focuses on the political geographies of European borders and on EU foreign policy and geopolitics, with a particular emphasis on the Mediterranean and North Africa. Most recently, her research has focused on anti-migrant movements and new spaces of migrant reception in European cities.

She is the editor of Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space and the forthcoming collection Spaces of Tolerance: The Changing Geographies of Religious Freedom in Europe. She is part of the editorial board of 5 of the leading international journals in political geography and geopolitics (Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Geopolitics, Political Geography, Eurasian Geography and Economics and European Urban and Regional Studies) and regularly acts as a referee for both European and North American funding agencies.

She has herself received funding from the Erasmus+ programme (Jean Monnet Network), the European Commission (FP7), the National Geographic Society, and the National Science Foundation.

Founding Director of ACES. Zeitlin is Distinguished Faculty Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Department of Political Science. Zeitlin co-founded ACCESS EUROPE and served as its Scientific Director between 2013-2017. He was also Co-Director of the AISSR Programme Group on Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) from 2010-2018.

Before joining the UvA in 2010, Zeitlin taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the European Union Center of Excellence and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and at Birkbeck University of London. He was also a research fellow at King’s College, Cambridge.

A former EU Jean Monnet Chair holder, he has received numerous research grants and awards, including Guggenheim Foundation, German Marshall Fund, and EUI Jean Monnet Fellowships. Zeitlin’s current research focuses on new forms of experimentalist governance within and beyond the European Union.

He has authored or edited 16 books and more than 100 international peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His work has been translated into nine languages. He is a Past-President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), and former Editor of Socio-Economic Review (Oxford University Press).

He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU), coordinates the SASE Regulation and Governance Network, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, and other international journals.

Wouter van der Brug is Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the cross-national comparative study of political behavior, in particular electoral behavior, right-wing populism and political parties. He published monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, and more than 100 scientific articles in various international journals, such as the European Journal of Political Research, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, etc.

Katjana Gattermann is Associate Professor in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). Her research interests comprise media-politics relations, political communication, political behaviour, public opinion, journalism, and legislative behaviour with a regional focus on Europe and the European Union. Her work addresses questions that concern the relationship between representatives and represented, and particularly the linking role of the media in that relationship, and thereby feeds into debates about the legitimacy and accountability of politics. She is currently leading a research project entitled ‘And the winner is…. !? The battle for the most impactful framing of election results between media and politics in multi-party systems’, which is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Her publications have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, the International Journal of Press/Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, The Information Society, and West European Politics. Her recent book ‘The personalization of politics in the European Union’ was published with Oxford University Press in 2022. 

Matthijs Lok is a senior lecturer in modern European history at the Department of European Studies of the University of Amsterdam. His specialisation is the political, cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe in a global context since the eighteenth century, in particular topics on the intersection of history, politics, law, philosophy and memory. His main interest concerns the role of ideas in political change and 'counter-narratives' of political modernity and globlisation. Lok has published extensively on regime changes, state and nation formation, conservatism, cosmopolitanism, eurocentrism, (Counter) Enlightenment, ideas of Europe, and monarchy from a transnational and comparative perspective.

Chantal Mak is a Professor of Private law, in particular fundamental rights and private law, at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT). Her research focuses on the legal-theoretical and constitutional legal framework for private law in Europe, with a special interest for the role of the judiciary in European private law. 

Marc Tuters is assistant professor New Media Culture at the department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. He writes on radical subcultures online and is affiliated with the Digital Method Initiative.

Arad Ahi is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Amsterdam Business School. Previously, he worked as a lecturer at the Aberdeen School of Business, University of Aberdeen, UK. He also held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Helsinki and Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, where he earned his PhD.

In past research, he studied the role of cross-border e-commerce in promoting inclusive global development and explored the significance of Industry 4.0 technologies in managing global value chains. Currently, he is examining how platform firms' non-market strategies influence EU regulations in digital markets. Arad teaches courses centered on business responsibility and sustainability, underlining their role in the contemporary business world.

Nora von Ingersleben-Seip is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and studies the politics of AI governance as part of the "RegulAite" project. Previously, she was a doctoral research fellow at the Technical University of Munich and a researcher on the Horizon 2020 "TRIGGER" project. Before that, she was Managing Director Thailand of artificial intelligence startup Ematic Solutions. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc in International Relations from the LSE.

Kristina Irion is Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. At Amsterdam Law School, she is Director of the Academic Excellence Track (AcET), Head of Studies for law in the interdisciplinary Bachelor's programme Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE) and Chair of the Committee for Ethics and Scientific Integrity. She is a lecturer in the Advanced LL.M. in Technology Governance, the LL.M. Informatierecht and a guest lecturer at the University of Lucerne. She is a member of the governing board of the Amsterdam Center of European Research (ACES). Until 2017, Dr. Irion had been Associate Professor at Central European University (CEU), then in Budapest. She obtained her doctorate from Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, and holds a Master’s degree in IT and Telecommunications Law from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Niels ten Oever is Assistant Professor of AI and European Democracies and co-Principal Investigator with the critical infrastructure lab at the University of Amsterdam. Next to that, he is a visiting professor with the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, non-resident fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology, affiliated faculty with the Digital Democracy Institute at the Simon Fraser University, and a research fellow with the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at the European University Viadrina. He also serves as Vice-Chair for the Global Internet Governance Academic Network. His research focuses on how norms, values, and ideologies get inscribed, resisted, and subverted in communication infrastructures through their transnational governance.

Brian Burgoon is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He received his PhD from MIT in 1998, and between 1998 to 2000 was Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).  He joined the UvA faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2000, was appointed Professor in 2012, and served as Academic Director of the UvA's Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)  from 2014 till December 2020.  

Burgoon's research focuses on three realms of politics: global economic integration;  welfare state development; and democratic political representation. The key goal of that research is to understand how these realms of politics influence each other, and in particular whether and how economic interdependence, social protection, and democracy can be rendered compatible or even mutually reinforcing.

Suda Rajagopalan is a Senior Lecturer in East European Studies. Appointed under the Nieuwe Generatie Offensief programme that encourages interdisciplinary professional profiles, she has a special teaching and research interests in Russian cultural studies, cultural history, historical media and new media cultures, and has taught a variety of courses across three departments, with diverse disciplinary foci, including postcolonial autobiography, Soviet cultural history and media reception. In 2016, her Master's course in East European Studies, "Intimate Politics: Culture and Subjectivity in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia" won the Onderwijsprijs or Teaching Excellence Prize in the Humanities.

Paul van den Noord is an affiliate member at the Amsterdam School of Economics (University of Amsterdam) and a theme group leader of ACES, Amsterdam Center for European Studies. He spent most of his career at the OECD in Paris (1989-2013), from 2010 to 2013 as a Counsellor to the Chief Economist. From 2007 to 2010, he was seconded as an Economic Adviser to the European Commission in Brussels. From 2013 to 2017 he was employed by Autonomy Capital, a financial institution in London and Geneva. He also held positions as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) from 2014 to 2018 and as an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (London) from 2014 to 2018. Paul van den Noord has published widely in the fields of monetary union and fiscal policy, including numerous articles in academic journals.

Zbigniew Truchlewski is a political economist working on the European Research Council project 'SOLID'. He is a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre as well as a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE) and at the Global Governance Centre of Geneva Graduate Institute. His research was published, among other journals, in the Socio-Economic Review, the Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics and West European Politics. He was also granted, among others, a Max Weber Fellowship and a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.

Asli Unan is an Assistant Professor of European Political Economy in the European Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining this position, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Political Behavior at Humboldt University of Berlin. Asli obtained her PhD in Political Economy from King's College London, focusing on the dynamics of policy-making, particularly policy reversals and their connection to transboundary crises.

Member of the ACES Governing Board. Eckes is Professor of European Law and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). Her research interests are integration and disintegration dynamics in EU law and the legal limits to European integration.

She is co-founder and editor of the open access journal Europe and the World – A Law Review, published with UCL Press. Between 2011 and 2015 her research on the internal constitutional consequences of the European Union's external actions was funded by a personal research grant (Veni) under the innovation scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

She spent the academic year 2012/2013 as Emile Noël Fellow-in-residence at New York University and March to June 2014 as a visiting researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. In 2008, she completed her PhD research at the Centre of European Law at King's College London, which was fully funded by a university scholarship.

She also holds an LL.M (2003) from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and passed First State Examination in Germany (2002).

Assistant Professor of Climate Law and Governance at Amsterdam University, Faculty of Humanities. His main research interest lies in soil protection, also with regard to the interaction between environmental protection and climate change policies in the EU, and in the interplay between international investment law and the climate change legal regime. In 2017, he was visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, where he collaborated with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investments. He was awarded the Raúl Estrada-Oyuela Award for Emerging Scholars in Climate Law in 2017 by Lexxion publishers. He has published more than 50 contributions between peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on issues related to: climate change mitigation; soil protection; water protection; environmental and climate governance; international economic law and climate change. He sits in academic journal's editorial boards and reviewer's boards, as well as in international committees dealing with climate change and environmental law issues.

Luc Fransen is Associate Professor of International Relations and member of the Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) Research Group as well as the Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance (TCCG) Research Group. He received his PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam in 2010 and has held research and teaching positions at the European University Institute, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Yale University, Leiden University and the Amsterdam Institute for International Development.

Her research interests lie in International Relations, Critical Security Studies and International Political Sociology. She has worked on European Union engagement with the Southern Mediterranean with a focus on peace and conflict, counter-terrorism, socio-economic development and civil society promotion.