The hiring process for a new  (interim) Dean is currently underway. 

Dr. Marianne Riphagen is AUC's Director of Education.

Dr. Marianne Riphagen is AUC's Director of Education. She served as Head of Studies Academic Core from August 2019 through January 2023. Marianne is a cultural anthropologist specialised in Pacific Studies. Since 2004, she has conducted research with indigenous peoples based in Australia’s metropolitan and desert regions. Her research interests include contemporary indigenous art, economic anthropology and visual anthropology. Marianne is the recipient of the 2006 Endeavour Europe Award and the 2009 Radboud University’s Frye Stipend. In 2011, she received her PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen based on her dissertation entitled “Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Up-and-Coming Artists and their Photomedia Works in Australian and International Visual Art Worlds”. Since then, she has worked at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, United States; at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia; and at Radboud University Nijmegen. As a lecturer, Marianne has taught Bachelor' and Master's students about a range of subjects, notably academic writing and research methods within the social sciences. 

Dora Achourioti is Head of Studies, Academic Core.

She also coordinates and teaches the academic core courses 'Logic, Information and Argumentation' and 'Advanced Logic' at AUC. She studied Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Athens. She continued her studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she obtained an MPhil in Argumentation at the Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, and a Msc in Logic at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation - both cum laude. She has previous teaching experience in the University of Amsterdam (Philosophy Department and Master of Logic), University of Durham (tutorials) and University College Utrecht. Dora is currently completing her dissertation at the University of Amsterdam (Philosophy Department - ILLC). Her research is centered around the notion of truth and situated in the area between philosophy and logic.

Ingrid van Loon is the Head of Operations and Finances Department 

She studied business management and cultural anthropology. Since 1996, Ingrid has held various operational management functions at the University of Amsterdam. She started as administrator of an EC-funded project for extending a Western European Network of Excellence to Central and Eastern Europe, and as coordinator of the successful Master of Logic programme. She also served as operational manager of the interdisciplinary Institute for Logic, Language and Computation for five years and had held this same function since 2013 at the UvA’s Faculty of Science (ESC) before coming to AUC.

Mafalda Candal is AUC’s Student Assessor for 2025-2026 and attends the Management Team meetings.

Dr. Belinda Stratton is AUC's College Secretary.

Until June 2022, Dr. Stratton served as AUC's Managing Director. Dr. Stratton obtained her BSc (Honours) and PhD in Chemistry at the University of East Anglia in the UK, with a study abroad period at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After her studies, she worked in an editorial department of the scientific publishing company Pergamon Press before moving to the Netherlands and starting to work at the European Association for International Education (EAIE) in 1993. She was the EAIE's Publications and Information Manager when she was recruited to the AUC team at the end of 2007.