Research Experience
- Postgraduate Researcher – University of Glasgow
(October 2025–present)- Doctoral research on the participation of defence industrial actors in nuclear weapons politics in the United Kingdom and France since the end of the Cold War
- Research Assistant, Nuclear Knowledges – Sciences Po
(June 2023–present)- Produced novel research on nuclear politics’ relationship with democracy, climate change, and memory politics
- Collected and processed interview, survey, and bibliometric data
- Organised biweekly research seminar and managed web communications
- Research Fellow – Streit Council
(March–August 2023)- Developed and conducted a research project on “The Paradoxes of Union and Freedom under Global Nuclear Vulnerability”, focusing on the nexus of democracy, global governance and nuclear weapons
- Contributed blog posts on Nuclear One Worldism, Nuclear-AI parallels, and Iran
Education
- Master International Security, Sciences Po, 2020-2022
(Summa Cum Laude)- Specialisations: Diplomacy and the Middle East
- Nominated for the Kuwait Student Paper Prize
- Bachelor International Studies, Leiden University, 2017-2020
(Cum Laude)- Regional specialisation: Russia and Eurasia
- Erasmus exchange semester to the University of Leeds
- Bachelor’s thesis: “Power Projection through Protection: Russia’s Middle East Policy as a Repetition of its Central Asian Security Imperialism”
Publications
- “Nuclear Memories for the Future: Gaps and Forgetting in European Publics’ Understandings of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Thesis Eleven 189, no.1 (2025): 37–53. (With Benoît Pelopidas and Alexander Sorg)
- “Existential Silos: The Compartmentalization of the Futures of Environmental Change and the Nuclear Threat,” Futures 173 (October 2025), 103671. (With Thomas Fraise and Benoît Pelopidas)
- “The Arsenal and the Ballot Box: Scoping the Incompatibility of Nuclear Weapons and Democracy,” Perspectives on Politics (2025), 1–18.
- “Armes nucléaires et environnement,” Raison Présente 230, no.2 (2024): 97–104. (With Thomas Fraise and Benoît Pelopidas)
Other written work
- “Review of Martin Senn and Carmen Wunderlich, eds., “The Complexity of Nuclear (Dis)Ordering,” H-Diplo, Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable Review 17-26. 16 February 2026.
- “The democratic cost of nuclear weapons”, The Loop, 16 September 2025.
Conference presentations
- “Reassessing the effects of the nuclearization of States and International Politics,” Alva Myrdal Conference 2025. Uppsala, Uppsala University, 12 June 2025.
- “Existential Silos: The Compartmentalization of the Futures of Environmental Change and the Nuclear Threat,” Planetary Technologies in the Context of Increasing International Instability. Leeds, University of Leeds, 1 July 2024. (With Benoît Pelopidas)
Additional work experience
- Social Coach and Legal Support Volunteer, Dutch Council for Refugees (September 2022–March 2023)
- Board Member, Netherlands Young Atlantic Association (September 2022–April 2023)
- Director’s Office Intern, OECD Centre for Tax Policy (June–November 2021)
- Student consultant on activism in autocracies, Amnesty International (January–June 2020)
- Tutor in economics and mathematics, Studiekring Gouda (January 2019–January 2021)
Skills & languages
- Dutch (Native)
- English (C2)
- French (C1)
- Russian (B2)
- German (B1)
- Basic coding in R and Nvivo
- Web management in WordPress