Renée Vermeulen is a PhD-researcher at Utrecht School of Governance (USG). Her research focuses on the tension between HRM and public professionals, especially healthcare and educational professionals. She studies whether this tension, which manifests itself as professionals' dissatisfaction with HRM, can be dissolved so that professionals and the organization professionals work for can benefit from the positive consequences of HRM. Renée focuses on explaining professionals' dissatisfaction, on finding ways to overcome dissatisfaction and to stimulate positive outcomes, and on what role HRM can take in this process.

As of October 2019, Renée is associated with the department of USG. Before she studied work and organizational psychology at Utrecht University (2012-2016, BSc), and Public Administration: HR and change management at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2016-2017, MSc).