Ellen Debackere is a freelance journalist and researcher. With a love for storytelling and a keen interest in data journalism and global developments, she writes on a multitude of topics.
As a historian, she obtained her PhD from the University of Antwerp and the Free University of Brussels in 2016. With her research she focused on immigration policy in nineteenth-century Antwerp. In 2017, she was nominated as a finalist for the PhD Cup 2017, a platform that aims to share science with the general public.
