Esm茅e is a Surinamese-Dutch research enthusiast passionate about studying power dimensions, inequality, deviancy and human rights. Ambitious, hard-working, social, optimistic, yet critical. She is specialised in qualitative research methods, crimes of the powerful, green criminology and conflict sociology. Esm茅e holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology (with honours) from the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam and a master's degree in Global Criminology (cum laude) from Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
As part of Daan van Uhm's ERC-funded research project 鈥楪reen Crimes and Joint Crime Ventures: Laundering Natural Resources鈥�, Esm茅e is employed as a PhD candidate to research the gold mining sector in Suriname. Specifically, she focuses on gold laundering mechanisms in the Surinamese gold supply chain and its environmental consequences.