Luuk Schmitz

Hello! I am an assistant professor in international political economy at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. I was previously a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and I hold a PhD in political and social science from the European University Institute with a dissertation on European industrial policy.

My research deals with changing state-business relations under geoeconomics: how do politics and markets change under security, and how does this change the way the state intervenes in the economy? A second interest examines how changing corporate planning routines (vertical integration) impinge on the big transformational ambitions to create a decarbonized and more resilient economy. Finally, I have an interest in computational social science, and how we can bridge the gap between linguistics, computer science, and political science.

You can find more information about my research, publications, teaching, and contact info on this website.