Academic positions
2010 - today Assistant professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology
2009 – 2010 Researcher/lecturer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology
2005 – 2009 Ph.D. student, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology
2004 Research assistant, Institute for Sociological-Economic Research, Erasmus School of Economics
Education
2005 - 2010 Ph.D. in sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude)
2004 – 2005 Master's degree in sociology, specialisation urban problems and policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude)
2002 - 2004 Bachelor’s degree in sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude)
Research grants
2010 FSW-Toptalent, grant for research support (€ 17.000).
2010 NWO-MaGW Rubicon; grant for research proposal ‘Welfare Chauvinism in Europe. Assessing the
Economic and Cultural Roots of Low Support to Entitle Immigrants for Welfare among Europeans’
(€ 55.000). [PDF]
2010 NWO-WOTRO Fast Track; grant for research proposal ‘Ethnic Contact or Conflict in Contemporary Dutch
Cities? The Impact of Urban Culture on Ethnocentrism and Right-Wing Populist Voting’ (€ 143.000; With
Peter Achterberg & Jack Burgers). [PDF]
Awards
2011 NSV Dissertation award - best dissertation in Sociology 2009-2010 - for Unravelling the Global City Debate. Economic Inequality and Ethnocentrism in Contemporary Dutch Cities, NSV (Dutch Sociological Association)
2007 Best article in Political Science for Class Is Not Dead - It Has Been Buried Alive: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in Postwar Western Societies (1956-1990). Nominated by Res Publica, Belgium, and as such published in World Political Science Review 3(4), art. 3. [PDF]
2005 Master thesis nominated for the NSV Thesis award , NSV (Dutch Sociological Association)
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