Curriculum vitae

Academic positions

 

2011 - today Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology

2010 - 2011   Researcher/lecturer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology

2006 – 2010   PhD candidate, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology

2002 - 2004   Research assistant, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology

 

 

Education

 

2006 - 2010   PhD degree in sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

2004 – 2005   Master's degree in sociology, specialisation Urban Problems and Policy, Erasmus University

                             Rotterdam (cum laude)

2002 - 2005   Bachelor’s degree in sociology, specialisation Urban Problems and Policy, Erasmus University

                             Rotterdam (cum laude)

2001 - 2002   ‘Propedeuse’ sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude)

1995 - 2001   Gymnasium, Grotius College Delft

 

 

Academic service

 

Co-editor

2008 - today          Sociologie

 

Reviewer for

2007 - today         European Journal of Communication, European Journal of Political Research,

                          Information, Communication & Society, International Political Science Review, Journal for the

                          Scientific Study of Religion, Social Forces and Sociologie

 

Miscellaneous

2010                    Jury member for Award for Best Article in a Dutch Sociological Journal, 2008-2009 (Dutch Sociological

                            Association)

Courses attended

 

05/2008                SPSS training ‘AMOS’, SPSS Benelux

11/2007                Academic Writing for PhD Students, Language and TrainingCentre (LTC), Erasmus University

                            Rotterdam

01/2007                Elementary Course Didactics, Onderwijskundig ExpertiseCentrum Rotterdam (OECR)

 

 

Awards and funding

 

07/2010                Research Grant (162,842 euro) for proposal The Dutch Paradox of Tolerance: Post-Christian Cultural

                             Polarization and PVV-Voting, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); with Houtman

                             and Achterberg                      

01/2007                EPAR Award 2006 for PhD Student of the Year, Erasmus PhD Association Rotterdam (EPAR),

                             Exectutive board EUR and Trustfonds Association EUR

09/2006                Second prize with honourable mention Thesis Award Freethinking, Vrijdenkersvereniging De Vrije

                            Gedachte

09/2006                Honourable mention Pearls of Integration, category research, Kennisnet Integratiebeleid en

                            Etnische Minderheden (KIEM)

11/2002                Cum-Laude Award Hoogeschool-Fonds 1920, for best propedeutic student in sociology, Erasmus

                            University Rotterdam