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Barbora Hola works as Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and as Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at  VU University of Amsterdam. She has an interdisciplinary focus and studies transitional justice after atrocities, in particular (international) criminal trials, sentencing of international crimes, enforcement of international sentences, rehabilitation of war criminals and life after trial at international criminal tribunals. Barbora has published extensively on these subjects and presented at international conferences and universities in Europe, Africa and the America’s. In 2013, the Netherlands Organization for   Scientific Research (NWO)  awarded Barbora the prestigious VENI grant for a research on sentencing of international crimes by national courts in Bosnia and Rwanda. In 2015 Barbora, together with Lily Rueda, received a Research Talent Grant for a project focusing on the role of sanctions in the ICC complementarity assessment. In 2016, the NWO WOTRO  funded a project on cycle of violence in post-conflict settings, in which she cooperates with  colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and the Prison Fellowship Rwanda. In 2017, Barbora was one of the four candidates who received the highly competitive ‘WISE’ (Women in Science Excel) fellowship from the NWO to develop her research line on empirical studies of international criminal and transitional justice after atrocities. Besides her research and teaching in the Master’s programme International Crimes and Criminology, Barbora is a co-director of the Center for International Criminal Justice, a knowledge centre dedicated to interdisciplinary studies of mass atrocity crimes and international criminal justice (www.cicj.org).  

Susanne Karstedt is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Australia since 2015. Before she held Chairs in Criminology at the University of Leeds (until 2014) and Keele University (2000 – 2009). In Germany, she taught and researched at the Universities of Hamburg and Bielefeld.

She is on the editorial and advisory boards of numerous journals, including the British Journal of Criminology. She serves on advisory boards for several institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, and was on the boards for law and criminology of the German Research Association and the Research Foundation Flanders. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, the American Bar Foundation and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.

She is the recipient of the Christa Hoffmann Riehm Award for Socio-Legal Studies (2005), the Award for Outstanding Services to the International Society of Criminology (2006), Thorsten Sellin and Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology (2007) and the International Award of the Law and Society Association (2016). 

Nandor Knust studied law at the universities of Frankfurt and Paris. He worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania and he carried out several field research visits to the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

As a member of the International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Criminal Law (IMPRS-CC) he completed his dissertation about a pluralistic model of Transitional Justice in 2011 that was awarded with the Otto-Hahn-Medal for outstanding scientific achievements.

He is heading the International Criminal Law Section of the MPICC and serves as Scientific Coordinator of the IMPRS-CC.

Nandor Knust is/was lecturer at a plurality of universities such as the University of Mannheim; Tumaini University, Tanzania; Arcadia University (with the East African Community) in Arusha, Tanzania and the School of Governance, Law and Society at the Tallinn University, Estonia and the Campus Helsinki, Finland.

His project role is to develop and apply a theory of ‘moral neutralisation’ to explain the denial strategies that are (I) used by perpetrators (and bystanders) when destroying bodies; (II) challenged, entrenched or transformed by the identification of bodies; (III) overcome – or possibly even further employed – in order to commemorate of the victims of mass violence. He is also interested in exploring the destruction of bodies as punishment (that is, as a subject of penological analysis), and in comparing the ways in which former criminals and former criminal states come to terms with their past.

Current positions

• 2015-              Freelancer at Smeulers: training, research and consultancy
• 2014-              Professor in international criminology at the University of Groningen (0,2 fte)
• 2011-              Professor in international criminology at Tilburg University (0,2 fte)

• 2014-             Co-chair European Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes and Transitional justice
• 2014-             Associated researcher at NIOD
• 2013-             Member of the editorial advice board of Genocide Studies International
• 2012-             Research fellow at Intervict
• 2012-             Initiating member of the  African Low Countries Network (ALCN).
• 2012-             Member of the advisory board of Young Professionals Research Intiative
  
• 2006-             Member of the editorial board of the book series Supranational Criminal Law, Intersentia
• 2006-             Editor-in-chief of the newsletter Criminology and International crimes as off 2014 member of the editorial board
• 2005-             Initiator and manager of the Supranational Criminology network

• 2009            Open Competition - scholarship (207.000 Euro) awarded by NWO (MaGW) for the project: ‘Breaking the chain of command
• 2008            Best Practice: Capita Selecta Sierra Leone by the Educational Centre of VU University, Amsterdam
• 2005            VENI-scholarship (200.000 Euro) awarded by NWO for the project: ‘A criminological approach to individual criminal responsibility’
• 1993            Honourable mentions of my master-thesis on perpetrators of international crimes at the PIOOM-Award Ceremony.