Management Board RENFORCE
- Sybe de Vries (1970) is full professor of Public Economic Law and since 2012 the Jean Monnet Chair. His research and his education focuse on EU Single market law and the interconnection between EU free movement law and fundamental rights.
- Margje obtained her LLM from the Legal Research Master cum laude from Utrecht University and worked as a junior lecturer for the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University before starting her PhD. Her current research addresses the legal framework applicable to consumer misinformation on social media and what enforcement strategies are available to reduce consumer vulnerability. She is also interested in legal developments in the field of influencer marketing and has already conducted research into child and family influencers.
- Alexandra Hofer is Assistant Professor in Public International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, Department of International and European Law. She received her PhD in international law from Ghent University in September 2019 and remains a member of the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI).
- Lisette Mustert is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at Utrecht University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Luxembourg, where her doctoral research focused on transnational enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Her research interests centre on composite administrative decision-making, the protection of fundamental rights – particularly the rights to good administration and to an effective judicial remedy – within the evolving framework of the EU’s digital and integrated administration.
- Dionysios Pelekis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). His research focuses on State aid law, industrial policy (and the interrelation of the two), as well as competition law more broadly. He also maintains a keen interest in European and international tax law, on public procurement, and on the single market more broadly. Within State aid law, Dionysios has a particular interest in its industrial policy connotations, on the compatibility of aid, and in particular of aid for R&D&I activities, and for environmental, energy, and decarbonisation purposes. Further, he researches on EU industrial policy more broadly. Finally, he is also working public service broadcasting, and on media pluralism His doctoral thesis, undertaken at the University of Edinburgh, focused on the evolution of the notion of fiscal aid, and the interaction between tax law and policy, and State aid law.
- Alexandra Timmer is associate professor human rights law at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). Her research focuses on equality and non-discrimination, in EU law, the ECHR, international human rights treaties, and Dutch law. Alexandra has a particular interest in gender and law. In 2017 she was awarded a prestigious Veni grant by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO) for her research project entitled Gender Injustice: Historical Development and Contemporary Challenges in European Human Rights Law. Alexandra is co-director of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). In addition, Alexandra is appointed as Member of the Dutch State Commission against Discrimination and Racism. She is also senior coordinator gender equality of the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination external link, since 2015.
- Mikhel Timmerman is Associate Professor of Criminal Law at Utrecht University's Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. Before coming to Utrecht in October 2024, he worked at the Criminal Law Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen and as a Law Clerk at The Supreme Court of The Netherlands (Hoge Raad). In 2018, Timmerman received his doctorate from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) for a dissertation on the principle of legality in EU law and under the ECHR. Timmerman holds degrees in Philosophy of Law (LL.M., Leiden University, 2009, cum laude), Dutch (Criminal) Law (LL.M., Radboud University, 2010, cum laude), International and European law (LL.M., Radboud University, 2010), Philosophy (M.A., Radboud University, 2012, cum laude), and Comparative, European and International Laws (LL.M., European University Institute, 2014). Timmerman's research focuses on substantive and procedural Dutch criminal law. In his research, the influence of EU law and the ECHR on Dutch criminal law often plays a role. EU criminal law and the relationship between EU law and the ECHR also have his special attention. For more information on completed research, see under ‘publications’.
Support staff
- Managing Coordinator of the department International and European Law, School of Law, Utrecht University
Student Assistants
- Yulin van Duijn
- Sasha Baker