Martijn Vlaskamp is Assistant Professor and Research Fellow Juan de la Cierva Incorporación at IBEI. Prior to that he was Beatriu de Pinós fellow (at IBEI) (2018-2021) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at Yale University and IBEI (2015-2018).

Martijn completed his PhD in International Relations and European Integration at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. As part of his PhD research, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations EGMONT.

His research interests include natural resource governance, political violence, and EU Foreign Policy. In his work, he often combines these different areas of research. In his current project he studies how a decrease in demand for certain natural resources influences the political stability in countries rich in these resources.

Martijn’s research has been published in “West European Politics”, “Cooperation and Conflict” and other peer-reviewed journals. He is the co-editor of two edited volumes. Martijn has been funded by the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.