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Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University; 02/2014 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam; 02/2012 – 01/2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Sociological Research, KU Leuven; 10/2011 – 01/2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University; 02/2010 – 09/2011
Research Fellow, Center for Political Research, KU Leuven; 09/2005 – 01/2010
Education
Ph.D., Social Sciences, KU Leuven; December 2009
MA, Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences, KU Brussels & KU Leuven; 09/2006
MA (licentiaat), Sociology, KU Leuven; 07/2005
BA (kandidaat), Political and Social Sciences, KU Leuven; 07/2003
Visiting Fellowships
American University, Department of Government (02-06/2012)
McGill University, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (03/2010)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Saguaro Seminar (01-09/2008)
Service
Chair of the panel “Contextual Effects on Participation and Trust” at the 2011 General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (Reykjavik, 2011). Co-chair of the panel “The Welfare State – Maneuvering between Functional Needs, Economic Imperatives and Public Opinion” at the 2011 Conference of the Dutch and Belgian Political Science Associations (Amsterdam, June 2011). Co-chair of the panel “ “ at the Annual Conference of the Network of European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet).
Jury member for the 2012 and 2013 Acco Master Thesis Prize of the Flemish Sociological Association (Vereniging voor Sociologie).
Member of the Editorial Board of Sociologie and Sociologos.
Reviewed for American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, Amsterdam University Press, Austrian Science Fund, British Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Sociology, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Research Council, European Sociological Review, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of European Social Psychology, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Social Policy, Palgrave, Nationalities Papers, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, Portuguese Science Fund, Scandinavian Political Studies, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Journal, Social Science Research, Social Forces, Social Indicators Research, Sociologie and Tijdschrift voor Sociologie.