Marleen Damman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on older workers and the transition from work to retirement in an ageing society.

Before she started working at Utrecht University, Damman worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University and at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW). In 2017 she was awarded a Veni-Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her research on retirement processes of solo self-employed workers in the Netherlands. Damman received her PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam (2014), based on the dissertation titled “From employee to retiree: Life histories and retirement in the Netherlands.”

Damman has published research about retirement preparation, the transition from work to retirement, and postretirement adjustment processes in several interdisciplinary scientific journals. See for example:

• Grünwald, O., Damman, M., & Henkens, K. (2022). Does retirement change what individuals value in life? Results from a three-year panel study. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 77(9), 1699-1709. 
• Van Solinge, H., Damman, M., & Hershey, D. (2021). Adaptation or exploration? Understanding older workers’ plans for post-retirement paid and volunteer work. Work, Aging and Retirement, 7(2), 129-142. 
• Zwier, D., Damman, M., & Van den Heuvel, S.G. (2021). Explaining differences in retirement timing preferences between the solo self-employed and employees. International Journal of Manpower, 42(2), 286-304.