Silke Maes

Biography

Silke Maes is a Research Fellow at the Prague-based EUROPEUM Institute of European Policy. Her research spans the realms of EU digital and social policy, with a particular focus on platform work. Based in Brussels, she currently leads a project, “The Platform Revolution”, which explores the development of fair platform work regulation in the Visegrad and Western Balkan regions. Silke is a European Studies graduate from Ghent University in Belgium. She studied abroad at Sciences Po Toulouse and completed an Erasmus Mundus Master’s programme in European Politics and Society at Charles University in Prague and Leiden University. She speaks Dutch, English, and French, enjoys playing rugby, and loves history and fun facts podcasts.