Linde Desmaele is a Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG-VUB). She is currently based in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her PhD in 2021 from the BSoG-VUB. She holds an M.A. from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies (South Korea), and an MA from KU Leuven (Belgium).
Linde’s research focuses on US-Europe relations; the evolution of US grand strategy and its impact on transatlantic and European security; US regional deterrence strategies and alliance interdependence; nuclear security and IR theory. In 2022, Linde received the annual Global PhD Prize, which was jointly conferred by the Egmont Institute and the European Security and Defence College.
Previously, Linde was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT (2022-2023). She was a Belgian-American Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, hosted at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) at Columbia University (2021-2022). She was also a visiting scholar at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (Fall of 2018). She has advised or conducted research for the European External Action Service, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Parliament of the Netherlands.
