Joanna joined the ICCT in August 2021 as a Junior Research Fellow for the Rule of Law pillar, until September 2022. She holds a bachelor in French and international law, having studied in France and Sweden. Joanna graduated cum laude from the Leiden University Public International Law LLM, for which she wrote a thesis on alleged forced labour of the Uyghur minority in China as a crime against humanity. She also graduated cum laude from the MSc in Comparative Criminal Justice with a thesis on the prolonged detention of migrants in immigration detention centres in France and the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic.
She has experience working in an international tribunal which prosecutes terrorist crimes as she has previously completed an internship at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Her research interests include international criminal law, counter-terrorism, human rights law, and the interplay between human rights and criminal justice responses to terrorism.
