Anouk is a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research focuses on accounting for dynamic competition in merger law. More specifically, she studies how merger law can take account of the cross-market competition in which an existing product is being challenged by an innovative product possessing different characteristics and the subsequent competitive responses.

Anouk holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Utrecht University, as well as a Master’s Degree in Corporate Law and Law & Economics from the same university. Prior to joining the EUI, she worked as a Paralegal in the competition practice of a large law firm in Amsterdam and as a Junior Researcher at Utrecht University.