GOVTRUST excellence consortium
Coordinators
Koen Verhoest (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management, organization and governance of public tasks, autonomy and control of agencies, regulation of liberalized markets public-private partnerships coordination of wicked issues
Esther van Zimmeren (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: intellectual property law, innovation policy, technology transfer, contract law, European institutional and economic law, international trade law, interdisciplinary research
Promoters
​ (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: Europeanization, multilevel governance, territorial politics, legitimacy of multilevel political systems
Stijn Oosterlynck (research group CRESC)
Expertise: urban sociology, local social innovation and welfare state restructuring, the political sociology of urban development, urban renewal and community building, new forms of solidarity in diversity, urban diversity policies, civil society dynamics and the relationship between cities and states
Patricia Popelier (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: federalism, the field of multilevel governance, constitutional review, legitimacy, and legal certainty
Piet Van den Bossche (research group Edubron)
Expertise: learning in organisations, team learning and professional development, how learning and performance is established through social interactions
Michel Walrave (research group Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations in Society)
Expertise: individuals’ self-disclosure in interpersonal online communication, privacy, reasons for entrusting personal information to organizations, consumer responses to personalized interactive communication
​Jan Wynen (Department of Management; research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: organizational change, public sector reform, organizational adaptation​
Research Manager
Sophie Op de Beeck (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management; trust in multi-level governance; research funding strategies; public personnel administration; HRM implementation
Core academic members
Jonathan Bernaerts (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: communication by the judiciary; language policies and rights
​Anne Bergmans (research group CRESC)
Expertise: how society deals with risk and uncertainty, particularly in relation environmental and technological issues, and the interaction between people, the environment, and technology
​â¶Ä‹Hans Bruyninckx (research group Politics & Public Governance; former Executive Director of the European Environment Agency)
Expertise: environmental governance, international relations, international environmental policy
​Ann Crabbé (research group CRESC)
Expertise: the introduction and evolution of new modes of governance, explaining institutional stability and change, and developing and implementing methods for policy evaluation
Dirk De Bièvre (research group International Politics, affiliated to Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: trade policy, interest groups, the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Sigrid De Bois (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: legal issues related to interdisciplinary research which addresses the development, policy making and governance of the built and non built environment
​ (Antwerp Center for Evolutionary Demography)
Expertise: neuro-economics, behavioral economics, neuro-imaging, hormone administration studies
Stéphanie De Somer (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: administrative law, more specifically planning and environmental law, aesthetic regulation
Marijn Hoijtink (research group International Politics, affiliated to Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: digitalisation; security; military technology; militarism; the changing character of warfare
​Ria Janvier (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management, working conditions, public sector, labor unions, HR management, psychological contract, diversity management, workforce, administrative law
Cedric Jenart (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: public law, constitutional principles, institutional law, human rights and federalism
Petra Meier (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: political representation, equality policies, gender issues, social groups, the reproduction of inequality, discursive approaches to the study of normativity in policies, ethnofederations
​Maurits Meijers (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: political representation, party competition, EU, democratic quality
​Karolien Poels (research group MIOS)
Expertise: advertising, advertising processing, personalisation, native advertising, advertising effects, online privacy
​Catherine Van De Heyning (research group Government and Law)
Expertise: protection of fundamental rights, protection of procedural rights in the interaction between the domestic and European courts, cybercrime
​Wouter Van Dooren (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management, performance; performance management, performance measurement, collaboration complexity, accountability
Affiliated core academic members
​Jan Boon (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ; main affiliation to Hasselt University)
Expertise: public administration, democracy, reputation, citizen participation, organisational effects of government reform
Camilo Ignacio Gonzalez (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ; main affiliation to Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Expertise: regulation of public services, knowledge management and public innovation, coordination between public entities, decentralization, transparency, and open government
​ (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ; main affiliation to Michigan State University, USA)
Expertise: trust and governance, legitimacy of legal authorities, latent construct measurement and modeling, vulnerability
​ (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ; main affiliation to Kozminski University, Poland)
Expertise: management practices in interorganisational relations, the theory of social networks, trust and distrust
Louis Meuleman (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ)
Expertise: (sustainability) governance and metagovernance, public administration reform and sustainability transitions
Maja Sahadzic (main affiliation to University Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Expertise: comparative constitutional law, constitutional law and comparative federalism
​Frédérique Six (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ; main affiliation to VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Expertise: public governance, trust and control, wicked problems, collaborative relationships
Researchers
Postdoctoral researchers
Chesney Callens
Expertise: collaborative innovation; networks and partnerships; ICT-enabled service delivery
​Andreas Corcaci
Expertise: Multilevel (Judicial) Governance, Policy Implementation, Environmental, Energy, and Climate Policy, Concept Structures and Set Theoretic Multi-Method Research (SMMR)
Dr. Serena D'Agostino​
Expertise: Anti-(Roma) Racism, Civil Society, Europe, Europeanization, (In)equality & Non-discrimination, Intersectionality, Intersectional Activisms, Minority Politics, Queer Politics & Theory, Romani Politics & Roma Rights, Social Movements.
​Jakob Frateur​
Lise Frehen
Expertise: legitimacy and legitimation, European policy preparation, regulation, evidence-based policy-making, stakeholder inclusion
​Cato Janssen
Expertise: public management, organizational psychology, EU law
​Christoph Niessen
Expertise: comparative politics, multi-level governance, democratic innovations, deliberative citizen participation, sub-state autonomy
Dominika Proszowska
Expertise: multi-level governance, (political) trust, vaccine hesitancy
Bastiaan Redert
Expertise: interest groups, European policymaking, (regulatory) agencies, legitimacy of stakeholder involvement
Doctoral and junior researchers
Affliated researchers
​Jan Boon (main affiliation to Hasselt University, Belgium)
Expertise: bureaucratic reputation; mediatization of bureaucracy; public sector communication
​ (affiliated to PPG, main affiliation to University of Oslo, Norway)
Expertise: politicisation of EU trade agreement negotiations
​Susana Duarte Coroado (affiliated to PPG, main affiliation to Dublin City University, Ireland)
Expertise: corruption, regulation, regulatory entities, lobbying, ethics
Moritz Kappler (affiliated to PPG)
Expertise: trust, governance
​(affiliated to PPG)
​Expertise: Behavioral Public Policy; Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Ethics; Voluntary Compliance
​Bernardo Rangoni (affiliated to PPG, main affiliation to University of York, UK)
Expertise: regulatory governance, public policy, political economy, trust, nature of regulation, financial regulation
​ (affiliated to PPG, main affiliation to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Expertise: public administration, public policy, international organizations, comparative politics
Other members
(voluntary member)
Danika Pieters (voluntary member)
Researchers from the .
Former members
Monika Glavina
Toon Jansen
Olivier Sempiga
​Lucas Brants