Dr. Maarten Bolhuis is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law at VU Amsterdam. He is a graduate in criminology and political science and obtained his PhD at VU Amsterdam in 2018.  

His research focuses on crimes committed during wars, investigation and prosecution of such crimes, and the involvement of migrants in them. His research concerns the interaction between criminal law, migration/citizenship law, and human rights law, connecting the disciplines of law, criminology, public administration, and legal psychology. He has been engaged in research on the criminal prosecution of allegedly ‘criminal’ asylum seekers; information exchange between European criminal and migration authorities in this area; the identification of (alleged) ‘terrorists’ during the high asylum influx from Syria; consequences of citizenship revocation of dual citizens convicted for terrorism; the increasing use of digital evidence in criminal investigation and asylum contexts; and the establishment of an international investigative task force to reduce impunity for journalist killings.  

Maarten Bolhuis is Programme Coordinator of an MSc programme in International Crimes, Conflict & Criminology, member of the Amsterdam Young Academy, board member at the Center for International Criminal Justice (CICJ), and member of the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP).