VUB professor Luis Simón receives 1.7 million euro

VUB professor Luis Simón has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of 1.7 million euros for his project SINATRA 'Subject or Object? SINo-American competition and European sTRAtegic autonomy'. In it he examines the future position of the European Union on the world stage. Professor Luis Simón is Director of the Research Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Brussels School of Governance of the VUB. He is also director of the Elcano Royal Institute's office in Brussels. The Consolidator Grant is paid by the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union to "independent, outstanding scientists who are conducting groundbreaking scientific research of the highest quality." Luis Simón regularly lectures on geopolitical and strategic affairs at various universities and defense academies in addition to his daily work at the VUB. His research has appeared in prestigious journals, such as International Affairs and Security Studies. Luis did his PhD in International Relations at the University of London, received a Master's degree from the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies (SIPA, Columbia University).