Matthijs Mouthaan is a postdoctoral researcher studying the politics of European agrifood policy, environmental policy integration, and food system transformation. He is particularly interested in the politics, (re)production, and contestation of ideas, knowledge systems, actor networks, and technologies in environmental governance, and its implications for facilitating transformative change.

Before his postdoctoral position, Matthijs was part of the Norwegian research centre INTRANSIT (Innovation Policy for Industrial Transformation, Sustainability and Digitalization) as a PhD candidate. In this role, he examined the role of digitalisation, data, and quantification more broadly for transformative marine governance, drawing on cases in Norwegian aquaculture policy, deep sea mining governance in international waters, and European mission-oriented innovation policy on marine restoration. Theoretically, his analytical perspective is inspired by transition studies, science and technology studies, and sociology.