Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making). In his PhD thesis, he analyzed this for the case of 9/11 in the United States, France, and the Netherlands. He is currently particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics.

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Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making). In his PhD thesis, he analyzed this for the case of 9/11 in the United States, France, and the Netherlands. He is currently particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics. 

Thijs studied Sociology in Utrecht, Mannheim, and Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam. As part of his PhD training, he spent research time at Washington University St. Louis, EHESS (Paris Campus) and the Graduate Centre of City University New York. Before joining ISGA, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs as well as Coordinator of its Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. In the fall of 2024, he will be a visiting scholar at Northwestern University (Chicago).  

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