Team

Team members

Dr. Christophe Paulussen LL.M. M.Phil. is a senior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and coordinator of its research strand 'In the public interest: accountability of the state and the prosecution of crimes', coordinator of the inter-faculty research platform ‘International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform’ and associate fellow rule of law responses to terrorism at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague. Christophe is also editor-in-chief of the journal 'Security and Human Rights', member of the Executive Board of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law, member of the Editorial Board of the 'Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence' and member of the Board of Advisors to the Editorial Board of the 'Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law'. Finally, he is project leader of several projects at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, including the International Crimes Database.

Drs. Julien Simon: having finished my studies of International and European law at the Radboud University of Nijmegen I lived and worked in various West-African countries for some ten years working in the area of ICT. During those years I was involved in training and capacity building, network development and integration and automation of work processes as well as the development and realisation of communication strategies in order to valorise scientific research. Returning to The Netherlands I started working for the T.M.C. Asser Instituut within the department of Information Technology and Information services. For many years I was able to contribute to the development of valorisation and communication strategies and the carrying out/management of numerous projects in that area. In 2006 I became a member of the Management Team responsible for Operations (including the ICT Department) and later on the Human Resources Department. Since its inception I was involved in the International Crimes Database Project. Over the years I was able to contribute to the development of the project and the acquisition of funds for this important project.

Belén Guerrero Romero: She is a legal intern in the 'In the public interest: accountability of states and the prosecution of crimes' research strand at the T.M.C. Asser Institute. She graduated from the LL.M. in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Geneva Academy. She obtained both her LL.B. in Spanish Law and her B.A. in International Studies from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her internship responsibilities include supporting tasks related to the MATRA-Ukraine Project, updating the news feed and social media handles of the International Crimes Database with ongoing developments in International Criminal Law, and being the editorial assistant of the volumes 25 and 26 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, published by T.M.C. Asser Press. She has previously interned at the Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions, at the Spanish Ministry of Justice, and at the NGO Plan International.

Wouter Lemaire: having worked in both commercial and public organisations for almost 20 years in the ever developing area of ICT, notably web development, database management, architecture and interface programming, he joined the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in 2011 as an asp.net C# programmer/web developer. In the current project, he was responsible for functional and technical design, Database development, front- and back-end development and integration of third party products.