Academic positions
01/2006 – today PhD student, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology
01/2002 - 11/2004 Research assistant, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology
Education
09/2004 – 12/2005 Master's degree in sociology, specialisation Urban Problems and Policy, Erasmus University
Rotterdam (cum laude)
09/2002 - 01/2005 Bachelor’s degree in sociology, specialisation Urban Problems and Policy, Erasmus University
Rotterdam (cum laude)
09/2001 - 08/2002 ‘Propedeuse’ sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (cum laude)
09/1995 - 06/2001 Gymnasium, Grotius College Delft
Academic activities
Co-editor
2008 - today Sociologie
Reviewer for
2010 European Journal of Political Research
2009 - 2010 Information, Communication and Society
2008 Social Forces
2008 Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
2007 - 2008 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