Our team counts researchers and administrative staff from different disciplines and backgrounds. We are all based at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University.
Principal Investigator
Professor Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
Professor of Law and Anthropology
Consolidation and Dissemination of Findings (2025-2026)
Dr Isabella Leroy
Senior Researcher
Dr Fatima Mukaddam
Senior Researcher
Dr Vera Wriedt
Senior Researcher
Regional Human Rights Courts
Dr Anne Heinisch (previously known as Speck)
Doctoral Researcher
Evidence regime of the European Court of Human Rights
PhD awarded on 2 September 2025: “The Evidentiary Practice of the European Court of Human Rights: Critical Reflections on its Historical, Institutional and Political Underpinnings” .
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Genaro Andrés Manrique Giacomán
Doctoral Researcher
Evidence regime of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Dr Edward Kahuthia Murimi
Doctoral Researcher
Evidence regime of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
PhD awarded on 27 March 2025: “Evidence at the African court on human and peoples’ rights: the case for an equitable applicant-centred approach as a pathway to substantively fairer decisions”
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UN Treaty Bodies
Dr Deborah Casalin
Senior Researcher
Evidence regime of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Co-editor of Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure”, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
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Dr Cornelia Klocker
Senior Researcher
Evidence regime of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
Co-editor of Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Individual Communications Procedure”, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
Doctoral Researcher
Evidence and indigenous peoples’ knowledge in human rights courts: Access to justice and knowledge representation dilemmas
Ruwadzano Makumbe
Doctoral Researcher
The use of open-source intelligence in the international human rights evidentiary regime
Nele Schuldt
FWO-funded Doctoral Researcher
Evidence in human rights litigation related to climate change and environmental claims
Administrative Support Staff
Martine Dewulf
Administrative Assistant
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Tiny Vandoorne
Administrative Assistant
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Past Team Members
Dr Jill Alpes
Senior Researcher
The work of lawyers in producing human rights evidence on pushbacks at European borders
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Kristien Van Ingelgem
Administrative Assistant
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Emma Varnagy
iBOF-funded Doctoral Researcher
How does racial abuse disappear from legal consciousness through lack or neglect of evidence in the ECtHR police violence case law?
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