Martijn van den Brink is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School. Prior to joining the Hertie School, he was a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. He holds degrees in law and political science from the Universities of Oxford and Groningen and has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan and the University of Zagreb.