CURRICULUM VITAE
ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND POSITIONS
Since 5/2021 Assitant Professor, Department Interdisciplinary Social Sciences & European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Utrecht University
Since 2/2018 Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
2/2015-4/2018 Post-Doc NORFACE project 'Migrants'Attitudes towards the Welfare State'(MIFARE), Prof. Claudia Diehl, University of Konstanz
4/2015 PhD defense 'Over-Education of Immigrants in Germany'(magna cum laude), Berlin Graduate School of Social Science, Berlin Humboldt University
Supervisors: Professor Ruud Koopmans and Professor Anette Fasang
9/2009-6/2011 Master of Science in Sociology and Social Research, Graduate School of Social and Behavioral Science, Utrecht University
Master thesis: Job Search Methods among Non-Western Immigrants in the Netherlands. GPA: 3.9
Supervisor: Professor Frank van Tubergen
9/2006-6/2009 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Chair of Statistics and Social Methods, University of Mannheim
Bachelor thesis: Social Capital-an International Comparison. The Influence of Social Capital and Political Trust on the Satisfaction with Democracy in Germany and the Netherlands. GPA: 3.8
Supervisor: Professor Joseph Brüderle
RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
12/2020 LISS Panel Grant (with Dr. Mara Yerkes, Utrecht University) for the project "From perceptions to
behaviour? Examining knowledge barriers to formal childcare usage among Dutch parents"
9/2020 Summer School Grant (with Dr. Basak Bilecen) for the organization of the Summer School on
Migration, Integration, and Social Networks, University of Groningen
9/2015-2/2017 Konstanzia Fellowship, University of Konstanz
2/2016 Independent Research Start-Up Grant (IRSG), Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
4/2013-2/2015 Doctoral scholarship awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
10/2011-3/2013 Doctoral scholarship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), funded by the Initiative for Excellence Program of the German Federal and State Governments
9/2010-8/2011 German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst [DAAD]
9/2010-8/2011 Student Scholarship awarded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
9/2009-8/2011 Utrecht Excellence Scholarship, Utrecht University, Netherlands
RESEARCH VISITORSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Since 2/2018 Member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), the
Netherlands
12/2016 Visiting scholar, Aalborg University, Department of Political Science, Aalborg, Denmark (Professor Christian Larsen)
1/2014 – 2/2015 Guest researcher, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Research Unit “Migration, Integration and Transnationalization”, Berlin, Germany ( Professor Ruud Koopmans)
9/2013-12/2013 Visiting Assistant in Research, Centre of Research on Inequalities and Life Course (CIQLE), Yale University, New Haven, USA (Professor Richard Breen)
2/2013-3/2013 Guest researcher , Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC) Oxford University, Oxford, England (Professor Nan Dirk de Graaf and Professor Duncan Gallie)
9/2012-11/2012 Guest researcher , Institute of Social Science, University of ZurichZurich, Switzerland (Professor Marc Szydlik)
12/2011- 4/2015 Guest researcher, research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization, WZB Social Science Center Berlin (Professor Ruud Koopmans)
TEACHING
05/2021-07/2021 Leeronderzoek, Utrecht University
11/2020-01/2021 Master Course Work and Work Relations (Dutch), Sociology Department, University of Groningen
(coordinator and teacher)
9/2020-11/2020 Bachelor Lecture Social and Institutional Change (Dutch and English), Sociology Department, University of Groningen (coordinator and teacher)
9/2020-2/2021 Bachelor Course European Values (Dutch), Sociology Department, University of Groningen (teacher)
Since 9/2019 In the acquisition of the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ), University of Groningen (expected date of acquisition: May 2021)
11/2019-2/2020 Master Course Work and Work Relations (Dutch and English), Sociology Department, University of Groningen (coordinator and teacher)
09/2019-11/2019 Bachelor Lecture Social and Institutional Change (Dutch and English), Sociology Department, University of Groningen (coordinator and teacher)
02/2019-06/2019 Bachelor Seminar Writing the Bachelor Thesis (Dutch and English), Sociology Department,
University of Groningen (teacher)
12/2018-8/2019 Supervision Master Theses (Dutch and English), Sociology Department, University of Groningen
9/2018-11/2018 Co-teaching Bachelor Lecture Social and Institutional Change, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen
10/2016-2/2017 Bachelor Seminar Migration and Gender, Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz
4/2016-7/2016 Bachelor Seminar Migration and the Welfare State, Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz
9/2011-1/2012 University of Zurich (Professor Marco van Steenbergen and Professor Thomas Gautschi), Zurich,
9/2012-1/2013 Switzerland
2/2008-6/2008 Teaching Assistant for Social Structures and Processes, Chair of Macro Sociology, University of
2/2009-6/2009 Mannheim ( Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus), Mannheim, Germany
ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES AND THE PUBLIC
9/2020 Organizer of the stream Migration, Integration, and the Welfare State (with Karen
Breidahl, Aalborg University), ESPAnet Conference, Leuven University
6/2020 "Targeting Older Migrant Populations in Survey Research", IMISCOE Annual Conference,
Luxembourg
11/2019 "Targeting Migrants – How to Increase Response Rates among Migrant Populations in Surveys", Sociology Department, Konstanz University
9/2019 Organizer of the Stream Migration and the Welfare State (with Troels Hedegaard, Aalborg
University), ESPAnet Conference, Stockholm University
9/2019 "Examining migrants’ knowledge about their childcare rights in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany", ESPAnet Conference, Stockholm University
8/2019 "Immigrants’ knowledge about their childcare rights in Denmark, the Netherlands, and
Germany," RC28 Conference, Princeton University
8/2019 "Examining migrants’ knowledge about their healthcare rights", Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York
6/2019 "Social Network Building among Migrant Men and Women", Dag van de Sociologie, University of Amsterdam
3/ 2019 "Integration of migrants into host societies: Barriers and Facilitators", Symposium Interdisciplinary Inspiration: Let’s talk about disadvantaged groups”, University of Groningen
10/2018 "Migrants as beneficiaries of the welfare state? - A migrant perspective", Community in Crisis Workshop, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany
10/2017 The Compatibility of Work and Family Life among Female Migrants in Europe"". Sociology Department, Zurich University
4/2017 “Why Family Matters: A Gender Perspective on the Emergence of Social Contacts to Natives among Migrants in Germany”, RC28 Spring Conference “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Cologne, Germany
4/2017 “Educational Trajectories and Migration Background” (with Maarten Buis, University of Konstanz), ”, RC28 Spring Conference “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Cologne, Germany
8/2016 “The Family’s Influence on Inter-Ethnic Contact among Immigrants: A Gender Perspective”, RC28 Spring Conference “Economic Inequalities, Deprivation, and Poverty”, Bern, Switzerland
7/2016 “Migrants’ Attitudes to Childcare. An explorative Overview of ten Migrant Groups’ Attitudes to formal childcare in the Netherlands and Denmark”, 4th European Social Survey Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
1/2016 “Barriers for Female Migrants on the German Labor Market”, Key note speaker, Conference of Migrantinnen- Netzwerk Bayern, Nürnberg, Germany
11/2015 Expert participant at public panel discussion about “Immigration, Integration, Intolerance!?”, Science controversial, Wissenschaft im Dialog and Südkurier Newspaper,
7/2014 “Social Support in Partnerships and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes in Germany?”, XVIII International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology,RC28 Spring Conference “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Yokohama, Japan
5/2014 “Immigrant Over-Education in Germany: Human Capital Variation or Skill Underutilization?”, International Sociological Association, RC28 “Social Stratification and Mobility”, Central European University Budapest, Hungary
2/2014 “The Partner’s Role in Immigrant Labor Market Integration: Informational, Instrumental and Emotional Support” Graduate Network Conference, Sciences Po, Paris
3/2013 “Determinants of Over-Education among newly arrived immigrants in Germany”, Graduate Network Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London
3/2012 “Qualified Immigrants in Germany and Great Britain: The Risk of becoming Over-Educated and its Consequences for the Occupational Pathway”, Graduate Network Conference, Berlin, Germany
3/2012 “Qualified Immigrants in Germany and Great Britain: The Risk of becoming Over-Educated and its Consequences for the Occupational Pathway”, Graduate Network Conference, Berlin, Germany