I am an interdisciplinary scholar, integrating social science theories and methods with history, both in my research and teaching activities. My research explores how institutional and structural factors have shaped gender (in)equality in well-being outcomes—such as health, politics, household roles, and work—and in female entrepreneurship (business types, sectors) over the long 20th century. My PhD research introduced new open-access data to analyse global gender gap trends from 1900 onward. In my postdoctoral work within the Horizon 2020 project, I examined how institutional complementarities explain the diversity of entrepreneurship across Europe and its policy implications.

Currently, I work on my NWO-Veni project, which studies three key questions on female entrepreneurship: 1) What barriers women face(d) when they start and run their businesses; 2) How these barriers have changed over time; and 3) How women's strategies to overcome these constraints have evolved historically. This project aims to develop a comparative historical approach to female entrepreneurship in Europe since 1900. As part of this effort, I am co-editing a special issue for Business History titled "Where Have All the Business Women Gone? Female Entrepreneurship in the Long 20th Century" (2023-2025). 

I supervise two interdisciplinary PhD projects—one on family businesses and gender equality, and another on associative order and well-being—that complement this research agenda. Additionally, I co-supervise a PhD project on precarious work as an external supervisor.

I am one of the four core executive members of the interdisciplinary research platform Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change at Utrecht University's strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies (IOS). From 2020 to 2023, I served as the History Board Member for the interdisciplinary PPE bachelor's program. In this role, I coordinated skills training for PPE students and led two educational project teams tasked with (re-)designing the PPE program's interdisciplinary and professional skills curriculum. As part of the initiative on interdisciplinarity in PPE education, I co-edit a textbook with the working title An Interdisciplinary PPE Approach to 21st Century Grand Challenges.