Prof. Yves Jorens is Full Professor of (European) social law and social criminal law at Ghent University. He has an extensive track record in managing large-scale European projects dealing with European social security and labour issues of migrant persons and issues related to social dumping and social fraud. His main domains of research are the coordination of social security for migrant workers, posting, cross-border employment, social dumping, combatting social fraud and social dumping and the employment situation in the aviation sector.
Lien Valcke has been affiliated with the Department of Social Law since 2012, first as a scientific researcher and currently as an assistant to Professor Jorens, under whose direction she is writing a doctoral thesis on mental well-being in the aviation sector for both pilots and cabin crew.It concerns a multidisciplinary doctorate in which attention is paid to both the legal and the (labor) psychological dimension of the problem.Lien Valcke researches trends in atypical employment within this sector and researched the working conditions within the lockdown context and the consequences for the mental well-being of the staff.She also conducts research into the functioning of and the need for transnational trade unions.