Monique is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, with an interdisciplinary background in law, social sciences and health. Her areas of expertise include human rights law, disaster law, health law, internal displacement law and empirical (legal) research (qualitative and quantitative methods). She primarily investigates how the right to mental health can be localised in climate disaster displacement contexts. Monique is a member of the interdisciplinary EU COST Action CLIMENT (Climate Change and Mental Health Impacts) and coordinator of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research Working Group on Human Rights and the Climate Crisis.