Dr. Marloes Beers is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations. Her research focuses on the history of energy politics of the EU in general with special attention for developments in the Netherlands, France, and Germany as well as the role of other international organisations like the OECD and the IEA. She wrote her thesis on this subject at the University of Cergy Pontoise in France. For her Ph.D. she studied the archives of the EU (Council and Commission), OECD/IEA, national archives of France, the Netherlands, and the UK as well as archives of multinationals in energy (Shell and Total). Apart from her specific focus on European energy politics, she is more generally interested in broader issues of European Identity. Recently she initiated a project to retain and make available the knowledge of the Brexit Legacy Taskforce of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 
Beside her broad knowledge of EU developments Marloes is specifically interested in France, a country where she lived for almost nine years, which language she speaks fluently. She follows French political and societal developments because they are intrinsically interesting to her. But also because of the importance of France as a country for EU developments, specifically energy politics and European Identity.
 
Marloes has several administrative, coordinating, and substantive responsibilities for education. She is the chair of the Educational Committee MA History. She coordinates the International Relations track, the specialisation on Europe and the world as well as the minor International Relations. She teaches subjects like the history of the European Union and the cold war. As a visiting lecture she teaches the introductory course on the history of EU external relations at the College de l’Europe in Bruges.