Dorothea Hilhorst

Director

Rodrigo Mena Fluhmann

Deputy Director &
SSRi Coordinator

Kaira Zoe Cañete

Senior Researcher

Sonja Fransen

Assistant professor in Displacement & Disaster Studies

Carolien Jacobs

Climares Coordinator

PhD researchers

Alemayehu B. Hordofa

Humanitarian Governance

Hyeonggeun Ji

Humanitarian Governance

Delu Lusambya

Humanitarian Governance

Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo

Humanitarian Governance

Jameson Lingl

International Institute of Social Studies

Lisa Peterson

International Institute of Social Studies

Cansu Aydın

International Institute of Social Studies

Nynke Schaap

Copenhagen University & International Institute of Social Studies

Molly Urquhart

International Institute of Social Studies

Thomas Ansell

HSC Coordinator &

Programme Manager

Gabriela Anderson

HSC Community & Project Manager

Luciana Freitas

Climares Community Manager

Societies in Crisis Research Team

The HSC hosts the ‘Societies in Crisis’ research team at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Alemayehu B. Hordofa

PhD researcher

Anne Brinkman

Postdoctoral researcher

Bilge Sahin

Assistant professor in Conflict & Peace Studies

Cansu Aydın

PhD researcher

Delu Lusambya

PhD researcher

Dirk-Jan Koch

Professor

Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo

PhD researcher

Kaira Zoe Cañete

Senior researcher

Kim Tùng Đào

Postdoctoral researcher

Lisa Peterson

PhD researcher

Luisa Cortesi

Assistant professor of Water, Disasters & Environmental Justice

Molly Urquhart

International Institute of Social Studies

Nynke Schaap

Copenhagen University & International Institute of Social Studies

Rodrigo Mena

Assistant professor of Disasters & Humanitarian Governance

Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits

Associate professor in Conflict & Peace Studies

Sonja Fransen

Assistant professor in Displacement & Disaster Studies

Thea Hilhorst

Professor of Humanitarian Studies

Zeynep Kaşli

Assistant professor in Migration & Development

Fellows

An HSC fellow is a researcher or practitioner that actively joins The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre community and plays a role in one of the streams of HSC activities: Research, Education, Impact, and/or Networking. The honorary position is offered by the HSC to academics and practitioners of all ages and levels of seniority.  

Palash Kamruzzaman | 2026

University of South Wales

Juliane Schillinger | 2026

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre 

Osama Alshamleh | 2026

International Institute of Social Studies

Douwe van Schie | 2025

University of Bonn

Andrew Russo | 2025

University of Oregon

Holly Ritchie | 2025

THRIVE for Change

Dirk-Jan Koch | 2025

International Institute of Social Studies

Carla Vitantonio | 2025

Independent researcher

Juel Helge Rye | 2025

University of South-Eastern Norway

Marcel Hazeu | 2025

Universidade Federal do Pará

Diana Viveiros | 2025

University of Coimbra

Sarah Njoroge | 2024

International Institute of Social Studies, HSC Podcast co-host

Santiago del Hierro | 2024

ETH Zurich D-ARCH

Maja Janmyr | 2024

University of Oslo

Clara Egger | 2023

Erasmus University Rotterdam (Dept. Public Administration & Sociology)

Juan Ricardo Aparicio Cuervo | 2023

Universidade de Los Andes