Laudy van den Heuvel

Laudy van den Heuvel is a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University, where she teaches political philosophy, cultural theory, history and philosophy of science, and European history for BA programmes in European Studies, Arts & Culture, and University College Maastricht (UCM). Concurrently, she serves as a Policy Officer in the Integrated Safety Coordination unit at the Projectbureau MUO (Maastricht University Office).

Her educational background includes:

• Bachelor of Arts in Dutch Language and Culture from Radboud University (Netherlands) and Universiteit Gent (Belgium)
• Sociology studies at a university in Brussels, Belgium
• Interdisciplinary Research Master in Human Ecology - Culture, Power and Sustainability from Lund University, Sweden, specializing in political ecology and political philosophy

Van den Heuvel's research critically examines intersections between political ideologies—particularly far-right movements—and environmentalism, focusing on human-nature relationships through frameworks of political ecology. Her master's thesis conducted a conceptual analysis of far-right ideology in this field, and she contributed to the seminal work "White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism" exploring climate change-far-right linkages. She co-organized the 2019 Political Ecologies of the Far-Right conference in Lund, establishing her expertise in this emerging research domain.