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Luis Simón

Director

Giulia Tercovich

Deputy Director

Daniel Fiott

Head of Defence and Statecraft

Ramon Pacheco Pardo

KF-VUB Korea Chair

Eva Pejsova

Japan Chair

Antonio Calcara

Head of Geopolitics and Technology Programme

Academic Staff & Fellows

Caterina Carta

Research Professor

Andreea Budeanu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Zack Cooper

Senior Fellow

Raluca Csernatoni

Guest Professor

Giovanni Grevi

Senior Fellow

Beatrice Heuser

Distinguished Professor

Richard Higgott

Distinguished Professor

Tongfi Kim

Research Professor

Stephan Klose

Postdoctoral Researcher

Carolin Liss

Assistant Professor

Alexander Mattelaer

Associate Professor, International Security, CSDS, VUB

Hugo Meijer

Senior Fellow

Céline Pajon

Senior Researcher

Michael Reiterer

Distinguished Professor

Michito Tsuruoka

Senior Fellow

Luk Van Langenhove

Professor

Salih Isik Bora

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lukas Spielberger

Postdoctoral Researcher

Programme Coordinators & Officers

Paula Cantero Dieguez

Head of Projects

Natalia Martín

Head of Partnerships and Activities

Piero Barlucchi

Project Officer

PhD Researchers

Lotje Boswinkel

PhD Researcher

Fabio Figiaconi

PhD Researcher

Jihye Kang

PhD Researcher

Kristin Lerfald Grostad

PhD Researcher

Hong-Cheng Hsiao

PhD Researcher

Octavian Manea

PhD Researcher

Ludovica Meacci

PhD Researcher

Elie Perot

PhD Researcher

Maaike Verbruggen

PhD Researcher

Ivan Zaccagnini

PhD Researcher

Joris Teer

PhD Researcher

Riccardo Bosticco

PhD Researcher

Thao Pham

PhD Researcher

Domenico Farinelli

PhD Researcher

Mahmoud Javadi

PhD Researcher

Interns

Matej Vanev

Project Assistant

Anastasia Fantini

Intern

Mia Andjelic

Intern

Faris Zebib

Intern

Oscar Llaudet Herrera

Intern

Associates & Visiting Fellows team

Jordan Becker

Senior Associate

Benedetta Berti

Senior Associate

Linde Desmaele

Senior Associate

Liviu Horovitz

Senior Associate

Il Houng Lee

Senior Associate

Patrick Wouters

Senior Associate Researcher

Claude Rakisits

Visiting Fellow

Maximilian Ernst

Associate Researcher

Laia Comerma

Visiting Fellow

Henry Haggard

Senior Associate

Zachary Selden

Fulbright Visiting Fellow

The Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy is a research hub at the Brussels School of Governance, an alliance between the Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Vesalius College.

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