The Wageningen professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction will be working on the research project ‘When disasters meet conflict’, for which she got a Vici grant from NWO earlier this year. She will initially have a part-time position at the ISS, which is part of Erasmus University. Hilhorst will also continue to work part-time for the next two years at Wageningen University, where she supervises about ten PhD candidates.
Hilhorst goes to ISS
Thea Hilhorst has been appointed a professor at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague.