Lectured, coordinated and designed courses in public administration, governance, policy analysis and qualitative research methodsExcellent teaching evaluations from students. Average score: 9 out of 10

Gained experience as a broadly employable lecturer at the departments of political science, PPLE and conflict studiesNominated as University of Amsterdam’s Lecturer ofthe Year 2021Awarded an educational innovation scholarship to redesign course exams (i.e. Beurs Anders Toetsen) in 2018Undertook fieldwork in 2019, studying wartime order and state-paramilitary collusion in Tolima (Colombia)Design and coordination of various courses, including my own course… Show more Gained experience as a broadly employable lecturer at the departments of political science, PPLE and conflict studiesNominated as University of Amsterdam’s Lecturer ofthe Year 2021Awarded an educational innovation scholarship to redesign course exams (i.e. Beurs Anders Toetsen) in 2018Undertook fieldwork in 2019, studying wartime order and state-paramilitary collusion in Tolima (Colombia)Design and coordination of various courses, including my own course Conflict, Security and Development and a thesis project entitled Armed Conflict and Wartime Order in the 21st CenturyExcellent teaching evaluations from students, also as their mentorCourses were taught in both Dutch and EnglishCourses:Academic Skills I and II (2x)Approaches and Debates in Political Science (1x)Introduction to Political Science Research (1x)Research Project (2x)Core Module International Relations (1x)Politics Power and Governance (5x)Law and Politics (2x)Violence and Security: Paradigms and Debates (2x)Introduction to Conflict Studies (5x)Conflict Security and Development (2x)Thesis Project PPLE: Armed Conflict and Wartime Order in the 21st Century (1x)BA Thesis Project: International Relations of theMiddle East (1x) Show less

• Gained experience as a broadly employable lecturer • Courses: Introduction Political Science I, Introduction Political Science II, Comparative Analysis of Political Systems, Skills: Text Interpretation, Statistics I, Statistics II, Skills: Book Review, Rational Choice Theory• Excellent teaching evaluations from students ranging on average from 4.0 to 5.0 on a scale from 1 to 5

• Assisting research to study the effects of state-militia collusion on political order in South Sudan and Afghanistan

• Digitalized codebooks from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study, between 1989–2010

• Teaching assistant for the Dutch-spoken course ‘Power and Impotence in the Middle East’ (Macht en Onmacht in het Midden-Oosten). Course was organized both thematically and geographically around (nonviolent) resistance in the MENA-region• Gained experience in correcting student assignments and providing written feedback

• Gained experience in writing structured, semi-academic and journalistic analyses• Participated in bi-monthly brainstorm meetings on a wide range of subjects, ranging from the Arab Spring to the ideals of anarchists

• Worked in several positions over a two-year period, both as an intern and employee• Gained experience in reporting and writing in English for an online consumer electronics community (CDFreaks.com) that had approximately 3.5 million unique visitors each month • Developed new written content for MyCE.com• Developed English language and communication skills during presentations and meetings, both for sales and journalistic purposes

• Gained analytical skills researching the effectiveness of several marketing campaigns for companies such as Electronic Arts, ING, FBTO (insurance company), etc.