About Sarah Schoenmaekers

Sarah Schoenmaekers obtained her master's degree at the European Law School of Maastricht University in 2005. After graduating, she started working as a lawyer with OMNIUS-advocaten in Belgium. At the same time, she started writing her PhD on the regulation of architects in Belgium and the Netherlands and the related cross-border problems. In 2010 she defended her dissertation.

Sarah has been working at Maastricht University since 2009, first as a lecturer, since 2013 as an assistant professor and since 2021 as an associate professor. She combined/combines these activities with positions as a postdoctoral researcher in European law at the Open University (2013-2014), visiting professor at Hasselt University and independent lawyer. Since 2021 Sarah Schoenmaekers is the director of all master programmes at the law faculty of Maastricht University.

Sarah is the programme coordinator of the Master International Laws and was for a long time the programme coordinator of the Master European Law School. For many years she has been a member of the education board of the joint law programme Hasselt University - Maastricht University - Catholic University Leuven.

Sarah is the course coordinator of several courses, including State aid and Public Procurement in the European Union and teaches European Competition Law. She publishes extensively in these fields and is often asked to speak at conferences or as an expert at workshops organized by numerous institutions or organizations, including the Word Bank, the European Parliament and universities at home and abroad. She is a member of the editorial board of various legal journals, including the European Procurement and Public Private Partnership Law Review, the 'Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht en Onroerend Goed' and the 'Tijdschrift voor Staatssteun'.

In her capacity as a researcher, she has contributed several times to the acquisition of contract funding.