Trineke Palm is working as a post-doctoral reseacher at the NWO project “Blueprints of Hope: designing post-War Europe” led by professor Beatrice de Graaf. In this research project she aims to explain (changes in) the character of the EU as the outcome of a complex battle of ideas among different transnational networks.  

Prior to her appointment in Utrecht, Trineke did her PhD-research, funded by a Research Talent Grant from NWO, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her PhD-research she analyzed the EU’s military operations to reflect upon the evolving character of the EU as an international power after the end of the Cold War. She also wrote on the introduction of women’s suffrage.