Current academic position:

2024-              Professor of Empirical and Theoretical Sociology, Utrecht University

Previous academic positions:

2021-2024      Associate Professor Sociology, Utrecht University

2010-2021      Assistant Professor Sociology, Utrecht University

2007-2010      Assistant Professor Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen

Academic visits: 

2025-2026      Visiting professor, Simon Fraser University, Complex Social Problems Group, Vancouver, Canada.

2021-2022      Visiting professor, COALESCE Lab, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

2020-2021      Visiting Fellow, Sociology, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia (cancelled due to CoVid 19)

2012                Academic Visitor, Oxford Centre for Study of Intergroup Conflict, Oxford University, UK

2005                Academic Visitor to Prof. Duane F. Alwin, Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, US

2002                Traineeship with dr. Melissa Steyn, Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Education:

2008               PhD Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

                        thesis title: Intolerance over Time. Micro and macro level questions on attitudes 

towards ethnic minorities, euthanasia and homosexuality.

                        PhD supervisors: Prof. Marcel Lubbers & Prof. Nan Dirk de Graaf

2007               University Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) IOWO Nijmegen

2003               MSc Sociology (cum laude), Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands