About the chair

From digital surveillance to sanctions and financial flows: increasingly, societal issues are being approached as security matters. This securitisation has major consequences for policy, democratic control and the way states and institutions intervene in society.

De Goede investigates how these processes emerge and the role of technology and infrastructures play in them. She focuses, among other things, on data-driven warfare, the relationship between security and international political economy, the role of financial flows in security policy, and the historical intertwining of finance, security and the state.

De Goede's research project into the enduring impact of colonial histories on contemporary financial infrastructures, for which she received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2025, aligns seamlessly with her new chair.

An important task for De Goede as a university professor is connecting disciplines and networks, and developing integrated perspectives on resilience, security, conflict and peace, both within the university and beyond.

About Marieke de Goede

Marieke de Goede was appointed professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences & Behaviour (FMG) in 2010. Prior to that, she was successively assistant professor and associate professor of European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities (FGw). From March 2022 to May 2026, she was dean of the FGw. Before that, De Goede was research director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the FMG. From 2015 to 2021, she also served as chair of the academic-cultural centre SPUI25.

De Goede is an academy member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and was an honorary professor at Durham University. In addition, she has held various board and advisory positions outside the university. For instance, she was a board member of the European International Studies Association (EISA) and a member of the scientific committee of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Between 2011 and 2019, De Goede was an associate editor of Security Dialogue (Sage). She studied International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

About the university professorship

University professors are specially appointed by the Executive Board, generally for a period of five years. They are expected to give impetus to scientific developments that transcend traditional disciplines and thus make an important contribution to the university's profile.