His area of expertise is the role of international organizations in the area of security and he won several prizes such as the Otto von der Gablentz Academic Prize and the G.A. Van Poelje Prize for his publications. He is author of International Organizations and Military Affairs (Routledge, 2016) and Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense (Palgrave, 2013) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contemporary Security Policy. Before becoming an Assistant Professor at UM, He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford, where he was also affiliated to Nuffield College. Moreover, he worked for the Dutch EU Presidency at the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York and DG Enlargement of the European Commission. (SOURCE)