Marie Gabenisch

Marie Gabenisch is a PhD Candidate in Criminology at Maastricht University. She conducts research as part of COMCRIM, an innovative, public-private and interdisciplinary consortium, aimed at detecting human trafficking, money laundering and corruption. Her thesis focuses on the analysis of the roles, images and understandings of the perpetrator-victim-facilitator triad in crimes that undermine democracy and the rule of law. She is a member of the Resilience, Security & Civil Unrest (ReSCU) Lab, based at the VU Amsterdam.

Marie holds Master’s degrees in International Relations from Sciences Po Bordeaux, Empirical Social and Political Research from the University of Stuttgart (2017-2022) and Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security from Reichman University (2022-2023). She developed her taste for societally impactful research in the security field at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) and the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT). 

Her research interests include:

• Criminological Ethnography
• Human Trafficking, Money Laundering and Corruption
• "Ondermijning"/Crimes that Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law
• Terrorism and War Studies
• International Relations

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