Mischa Dekker is an Assistant Professor in the Violence and Violence Prevention research group at Leiden University. He graduated in philosophy and social sciences and subsequently completed a PhD in sociology at the University of Amsterdam and at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Following his doctoral research on the politicization of street harassment in the Netherlands and France, Mischa Dekker was a Marie Curie fellow at KU Leuven and Sciences Po Paris. His research revolves around the politics of gender-based violence, with a focus on policy, social movements, and media coverage. In September 2024, he started a new research project supported by an NWO-Veni grant: “Why Is Sexual Violence Still Not a Man’s Problem? Comparing Post #MeToo Policy and Awareness Training in the Dutch and French Cultural Sectors”