Sofie Oosterhuis is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, where she is researching the Boards of Appeal of European Union agencies. Her research is part of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE) and falls within the Empirical Research into Institutions for conflict resolution (ERI). The PhD research is supervised by prof. Rob Widdershoven, Dr. Mira Scholten and Dr. Matteo Gargantini.