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

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 and Peace Studies

Gabriela Villacis Izquierdo

PhD researcher

Kaira Zoe Cañete

Senior researcher

Lisa Peterson

PhD researcher

Rodrigo Mena

Assistant professor of Disasters & Humanitarian Governance

Sonja Fransen

Assistant Professor in Displacement & Disaster Studies

Thea Hilhorst

Professor of Humanitarian Studies

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.  

Juan Ricardo Aparicio Cuervo | 2023

Universidade de Los Andes

Clara Egger | 2023

Erasmus University Rotterdam (Dept. Public Administration & Sociology)

Maja Janmyr | 2024

University of Oslo

Santiago del Hierro | 2024

ETH Zurich D-ARCH

Sarah Njoroge | 2024

International Institute of Social Studies, HSC Podcast co-host

Dirk-Jan Koch | 2025

International Institute of Social Studies

Diana Viveiros | 2025

University of Coimbra

Marcel Hazeu | 2025

Universidade Federal do Pará

Juel Helge Rye | 2025

University of South-Eastern Norway

Carla Vitantonio | 2025

Independent researcher

Holly Ritchie | 2025

THRIVE for Change

Andrew Russo | 2025

University of Oregon

Douwe van Schie | 2025

University of Bonn