Published 12 May 2009
Dr. Louise Vigeant is AUC's Head of Studies (Social Sciences) and Senior Tutor. Louise Vigeant has a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University, USA. She also holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Ottawa, Canada, an MA in linguistics from Stanford University, USA, and an MA in philosophy from Carleton University, Canada. She has extensive teaching experience at universities in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and political theory.
- Eric Bartelsman is Professor in Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He studied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD from Columbia University.
He has served as economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, as advisor to the CPB, Netherlands, and as Head of the Economic Research Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. In 2007 and 2008 he served as a member of the Netherlands Council of Economic Advisors (REA). His research focus is on the sources of productivity growth, both from a micro and macro point of view. Bartelsman is a Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and IZA Bonn.
- Johan van Benthem is a University Professor of Logic at the University of Amsterdam, Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and Weilun Professor of Humanities at Tsinghua University Beijing.
His main current interests are logics of information flow, rational agency, and intelligent interaction. In 1996 he received the NWO Spinoza Award for his work on logic, language, and computation. For more information about Johan van Benthem, please see link below.
- Eddy de Bruyn (PhD, Cornell University) is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
His main current interests are (early) adolescent behaviors, in particular relationships between popularity, social dominance, bullying and victimization, social and academic behavior. He is also developing a theoretical model that incorporates adolescent behaviors in an evolutionary psychological framework. For more information about Eddy de Bruyn, please see link below.
- Emma Cohen de Lara (PhD University of Notre Dame) is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the VU University Amsterdam.
She holds an MA in political science from the University of Leiden and an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Notre Dame and worked as assistant professor at the University of Vermont before returning to the Netherlands. Her research is focused on ancient Greek political thought with a particular focus on questions of law and democracy. She has a broad interest in the history of political thought, including the medieval tradition, the American founding period, the connection between virtue ethics and politics, questions about democracy and justice, and contemporary debates about politics and culture. For more information about Emma Cohen de Lara, please see link below.
- Gareth Davies is professor of European Law at the law faculty of the VU University Amsterdam. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Groningen, and a barrister in London. He has also taught EU law as a guest or visiting lecturer at various universities in Europe and Canada, and has been a visiting scholar at New York University.
His research interests are in the relationship between market regulation and public services such as healthcare and education, and in anti-discrimination law. For more information about Gareth Davies, please see link below.
- Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Ph.D. (Amsterdam 2001), is associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam.
She specialises in Africa and South West Indian Ocean studies, with a particular focus on Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius. Dr Evers' principal areas of research cover the anthropology of children, (forced) migration, slavery, memory and cognition, frontier societies within the context of globalisation, natural resource management, poverty and sustainable development. She is the director of a joint research programme on natural resource management and poverty of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (VU University Amsterdam) and the Institut de Civilisations/Musée d'Art et Archéologie (Université d'Antananarivo). She also acts as convener of an international working group on the anthropology of children.
- Sennay Ghebreab studied Information Systems at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD from the same University in 2002 in medical image analysis and retrieval. Part of the research was carried out at Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT, USA).
Subsequently, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Erasmus MC, University Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), where his research interest gradually shifted from medical imaging to cognitive vision in psychology. In 2005, he returned to the University of Amsterdam where he is currently working at the Psychology Institute (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) and the Informatics Institute (Faculty of Science) in the interdisciplinary field of brain, cognition and information processing. He teaches the introductory course on Information, Communication and Cognition at AUC.
- Jan Willem Gunning is professor of development economics at the VU University Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development (AIID).
He has been a staff member of the World Bank and professor at the University of Oxford where he directed the Centre for the Study of African Economies. His research interests include poverty dynamics, impact evaluation, and the effect of risk on growth in rural societies. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Auvergne (France) for his leading role in economic research on Africa.
- Stefan Hochguertel is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at VU University Amsterdam. He studied economics at the universities of Bonn and Munich (Germany), and received a PhD in economics from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). He has held research positions at Uppsala University (Sweden) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).
His research interests lie in studying household financial and labour market behaviour, and dynamic decisions over time, using microeconomic data and microeconometric methods. Research projects include savings and portfolio choice of households, modelling consumer credit, accumulation of wealth over the life cycle and between generations, self-employment, and issues related to retirement choices.
He is affiliated with the Tinbergen Institute, the Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies, and Netspar. At VU University Amsterdam, he coordinates the MSc Program in Economics.
- Hannie van Hooff is Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Cognitive Psychology.
Hannie van Hooff obtained her BSc and PhD in Psychophysiology at Tilburg University. She then moved to the UK where she worked as a senior lecturer in Psychology at Solent University (Southampton), Portsmouth University, and Kent University (Canterbury), respectively. In 2009, she returned to The Netherlands to join the Department of Cognitive Psychology at the VU University Amsterdam. Her main research expertise lies in the area of event-related potential (ERP) research (a brain activity measure derived from scalp-recorded EEG). Hannie uses ERPs to investigate (a) the underlying mechanisms of memory and forgetting, and (b) the way in which emotional information from the environment guides our attention.
- Jacob Jordaan received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2004.
He is currently working as tenured assistant professor at the department of economics of the VU University Amsterdam, where he teaches courses in development economics and international economics. His main research interests include the operations and effects of multinational enterprises in developing countries, the role of technology and externalities in processes of economic growth and relations between processes of industry location and economic development. His latest book, entitled "Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Externalities", presenting a variety of evidence and analysis of FDI spillovers in manufacturing industries in Mexico, came out earlier this year.
- Olaf Koeneman is assistant professor at the department of Dutch Linguistics. He obtained his PhD in 2000 with a study of verbal syntax in primarily Germanic languages.
Before coming to the University of Amsterdam, he carried out post-doc projects at Groningen University and the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. Currently, he is responsible for linguistics courses in the Dutch department and for carrying out research into syntactic and morphological variation.
- Harro Maas is Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics.
He has written extensively in the history of political economy, especially on the Victorians. His book William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) won the Joseph J. Spengler best book award of the History of Economics Society. Presently, he is writing a history of observational practices in economics on a VIDI-grant of the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO). In this project he cooperates with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science at Berlin. For more information about Harro Maas, please see link below.
- Oscar Salemink is Professor of Anthropology at VU University in Amsterdam.
He received his doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam, based on research on Vietnam's Central Highlanders. Between 1996 and 2001 he held positions with the Ford Foundation in Thailand and Vietnam. Recent publications include Colonial Subjects (1999); Vietnam's Cultural Diversity (2001); The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders (2003); The Development of Religion, the Religion of Development (2004); and thematic issues of Focaal - European journal of anthropology (2006) and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (2007).
His current research concerns religious and ritual practice in everyday life in Vietnam.
- Abram De Swaan (1942) is Emeritus University Research Professor at the University of Amsterdam, chairman of the Amsterdam School for Social science research, and Director of the Academía Europea de Yuste (Spain).
In 1997-1998 he held the European Chair at the Collège de France, Paris. He has published many books in English including, "Words of the world; the global language system," Polity Press, 2001. In 2008, he was the recipient of the national award for literature, for his entire essayistic oeuvre.
- Olaf Tans is a legal theorist and political scientist, who publishes both in academic and more general media, focussing on the interplay between political communities and their foundational norms.
After obtaining his PhD in 2003, he worked as postdoc in a NWO-program about democracy in the European Union, and as Assistant Professor of legal philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit. His main topics of interest are constitutionalism, discourse theory and the relationship between law and society. This results in research questions such as: How have constitutional ideas evolved in the history of political and legal thought? What is the function of constitutions in modern political communities? How are their rules used to defend claims, for example about human rights? What to think of the ambition to establish supranational or even global constitutional regimes?
- Geert de Vries is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Among his books are: Het pedagogisch regiem (The Educational Regime,1993); Nederland verandert (The Netherlands are Changing, 2004); and Sociologie, publiek en politiek (Sociology, Public, and Politics, 2009). He has been co‑editor of the Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift / Amsterdam Journal of Sociology (1993-2004) and of the Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences (1998-2000).
He is a member of the Council of the Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging [Dutch Sociological Association]. In 2004 he won the Teacher of the Year Award of the Faculty of Social Sciences. For more information about Geert de Vries, please see link below.
Source: AUC
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