Jeroen Adam holds an MA in Contemporary History and an MA in Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University. Between 2004-2010 he worked as a teaching assistant at the department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University. Within that capacity he submitted his PhD in 2009 on dynamics of conflict, internal displacement and land access in Ambon, eastern Indonesia. Post-doc research, starting in 2010 has focused on questions of violent conflict and land contestation in the Philippines. Between 2013 and 2016, research has been conducted for the JSRP consortium on dynamics of violence and peacebuilding in Muslim Mindanao. Subsequent projects include, amongst others, 2 Vlir-Uos projects on human rights in the Philippines (2018-2022) and the supervision over several PhD projects on land contestation in Mindanao. In October 2020, Jeroen Adam has taken a 2-year leave of absence from academia to work at ILVO to coordinate the research component of a H2020 project on wellbeing among farmers in Europe called Farmwell. In 2022, Jeroen Adam resumed his activities at the department of Conflict and Development focusing his research on questions of land access and rural transformations.