Mirko van Muijen works since September 2022 as a policy officer for DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission.
Mirko is responsible for research security issues in the International R&I Cooperation Unit. In this capacity, he was the rapporteur for the proposal for a Council Recommendation on strengthening research security in Europe.
He is a seconded national expert from the Netherlands, where, before coming to Brussels, he was programme manager at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science for the development of Dutch knowledge security policy. He has worked for more than 20 years in public administration, for different Ministries in The Hague (NL), as well as in Brussels, where he worked as Education Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union.