4 PhD positions on tackling subversive crime in the Port of Rotterdam

Do you want to contribute to a better understanding of the organization of cocaine trafficking and human smuggling through the Port of Rotterdam? Do you want to improve the governance of cocaine trafficking and human smuggling together with the public and private actors in the Port of Rotterdam? Do you want to develop innovative tools like interactive models, dynamic heat maps, crime scripts, and serious games to enable governance actors to intervene proactively? Do you want to work with an interdisciplinary research consortium consisting of academics from criminology, anthropology, law, history, mathematics, network science, computing and information sciences, and public and private actors with governance responsibilities in the PoR? Apply to one of 4 PhD positions (4 years) in the research project FORT-PORT (Focusing On the Right Things in the Port of Rotterdam).

FORT-PORT aims to uncover the criminal business processes, modi operandi and criminal networks underlying cocaine trafficking and human smuggling through the Port of Rotterdam. Ultimately, FORT-PORT contributes to a strong, future-proof port that is acclaimed for its security and its resilience against subversive crime, mindful of the potential economic and societal consequences of raising all possible barriers.

FORT-PORT is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), with Erasmus University Rotterdam as the main applicant. FORT-PORT is organized in 5 work packages. Work package 1 and 3 offer 4 PhD positions and 2 postdoc positions at Erasmus School of Law. You will collaborate with researchers at TU Delft and Utrecht University as well.