Michal Onderco
Michal Onderco is Professor of International Relations at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the programme director of the MISOC. He teaches the course International Law within MISOC, and courses in global governance and EU foreign policy at the Master level. His research focuses on the domestic politics of foreign policy and politics of nuclear weapons. He is involved in various international research projects, in which he studies civil society and nuclear disarmament, the regulation of emerging technologies, and the most pressing challenges of democratic decline. In the past, he held positions at Stanford, Columbia University, European University Institute, Waseda, or Fundacao Getulio Vargas.
Clara Egger
Clara Egger is an assistant professor of Global Governance at the ESSB. Her research interests broadly concern the political economy of crises; their impact on (de) democratization processes; and the institutional origins of crisis management institutions. Building global resilience to current and future crises (be they climate induced, economic or triggered by social inequalities) implies the design of fair and equitable institutions that not only resist exogenous shocks but give a central role to citizens in the design of crisis preparedness and management policies. Since the start of her academic career, Cara has aimed at uncovering how such institutions can be designed. Her most recent research project concerns the analysis of crisis-management institutions in Saint Martin and prototyping the digital twin methodology to study democratic erosion in Europe (TWIN4DEM Horizon Europe project). Clara has held research and teaching positions at Sciences Po Grenoble, at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the University of Quebec in Montreal and at the French Institute for Research on Africa (Kenya). She contributes to the Disaster and Pandemic Preparedness Center and to the Humanitarian Studies Centre hosted at the International Institute of Social Studies.
Lore van Praag
Lore Van Praag is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, where she works on social inequalities and diversity. Over the years, she has gained a lot of research expertise in participating in interdisciplinary research projects (Belspo Migradapt, H2020 MICADO, H2020 PERCEPTIONS, H2020 COVINFORM, Erasmus+ ACCORD) and coordinating research projects, such as the Validiv project on multilingualism in primary schools in Flanders (SBO project), the RESL.Eu on Early School Leavers in Europe (FP7) and the ReIncluGen project (Horizon Europe) that focuses on the conceptualisations of gender empowerment from a ‘situated intersectional’ approach. Her research interests are ethnicity, gender, migration, education, humour and climate change. Lately, she has conducted fieldwork in Morocco, Belgium, the Netherlands on how religion, views on climate change and climate adaptation, are entangled with migration dynamics, including social remittances, immobilities, migration aspirations and cultures of migration.
Gabriele Jacobs
Gabriele Jacobs is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Culture at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests include organizational change, culture, justice and identity. Gabriele graduated with her PhD from University of Münster, Germany. After working as Visiting Professor at HEC, Paris (Department of Human Resource Management) she joined Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2000. In her research she focusses mainly on the context of public safety, where she coordinated and conducted several national and EU-projects. Since September 2022 Gabriele Jacobs leads the project AI-MAPS (Artificial Intelligence in Multi-Agency Public Safety), a multi-disciplinary research project with more than 20 partners from academia, the private and public sector and civil society. Gabriele loves developing with stakeholders from different backgrounds new forms of societal and professional resilience in public safety. This is also why she sees teaching in MISOC as a beautiful opportunity to co-create knowledge with students from diverse backgrounds.
Adrià Albareda
Adrià Albareda is an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He co-coordinates the Public Administration master program “Beleid en Politiek” and teaches courses on public policy and policy analysis in bachelor and master programs. His research focuses on the role of civil society organizations and interest groups in public policy processes. More specifically, he is interested in the representative potential of interested groups and how does that affect their interaction with public officials and their influential capacity in policy processes. He holds a PhD in public administration from Leiden University.