I am Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2020 I am member of The Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and I was the vice-chair of The Young Academy from 2022-2024. I am currently director of the MA program in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

My research focuses on inequality in education, the labor market, and science. I want to understand how inequalities between groups arise, and why individuals with similar capacities end up having very different trajectories in their life courses. In my current research projects I am for example interested in understanding how the linkage between school and work affects labor market outcomes in the short- and longterm, or how scientists’ careers diverge. I also worked extensively on the effects of school closures for the inequality in educational opportunities.

In 2020 I received an ERC Starting Grant for CAREER, a project in which I aim to investigate how the changing labor market affects the career returns to general and vocational education. I  am currently also involved in a large interdisciplinary Gravitation project (GUTS),  and a NRO grant to study selection in Dutch primary and secondary education.

On this website you will find my CV, my publications, and links to the replication files for my recent papers.