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I am a sociologist, social researcher and data analyst working as an Assistant Professor at the Human Resource Studies Department at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. At Tilburg, I am involved in interdisciplinary research on social inequality at the Herbert Simon Research Institute. Previously I worked at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in the Work & Retirement group (where I am currently a guest researcher), and at the University of Amsterdam in the Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses group (IIL). 

In my research, I am trying to understand how the world of work is changing and how are these changes related to social inequalities. I study the impact of population ageing and trends toward later retirement on interactions in the labour market and inequalities in older age. In this context, I am particularly focused on the role of employers and organisational processes. I also specialise in quantitative methodology and statistics.

In 2020, with M. Kalmijn and T. Leopold, we developed the Comparative Panel File (CPF) - an open science project to harmonize the world’s major and longest-running household panel surveys. CPF is the first fully open harmonization initiative in the social sciences. It provides a powerful comparative longitudinal dataset that follows the lives of several generations against a changing historical background, warranting an enormous value for social scientists.