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Sofie’s doctoral work will analyse how strategies of interest representation in the EU – lobbying as well as litigation – can be regulated in order to ensure accountability and transparency of decision-making processes. Sofie will conduct her research at ACELG, co-supervised by Professor Christina Eckes, and at the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva.   

Prior to this position, Sofie was connected to the KU Leuven Faculty of Law (Belgium) as a teaching assistant in Human Rights law (Leuven Centre for Public Law) and as a research fellow at the Centre for IT and IP Law. She previously worked as an EU Law and Policy Advisor at Linklaters LLP and has gained experiences as a legal consultant at the International Criminal Court and as a parliamentary assistant trainee in the European Parliament. Sofie obtained her Master’s Degree in Law (LLM) at KU Leuven (2018), specializing in International and European law, and further completed a Master of Advanced Studies in European policies and public administration at KU Leuven and Sciences Po Paris (2019), with a research focus on litigation and lobbying strategies in the EU. 

Sofie’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Action (MSCA) doctoral fellowship is part of an international multi-annual and interdisciplinary research effort on Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism, which examines the EU’s capacity to act given the challenges facing Democratic Institutions, the rise of Alternative MOdels and mounting Normative Dissensus (GEM-DIAMOND).