Since October 2010 I am an assistant professor of Sociology
at the University of Amsterdam. I am also working as a senior
researcher at the Erasmus Studio Rotterdam. Before joining the
sociology department at the UvA, I was a post-doc researcher in
the project "Improving web survey methodology for social and
cultural research" at the Erasmus University Rotterdam where I
have studied methodological issues concerning web
surveys.
After graduation in 2000, I undertook research in the
framework of the EU-funded project 'Female employment and
family formation in Europe' (FENICs) at the
UniversityofErlangen-Nuremberg and at the Institute for
Demographics in Barcelona (CED). From 2004 until 2008 I have
worked at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
(MZES, Germany) on my PhD thesis "The Contextual Challenges of
Occupational Sex Segregation - Deciphering Cross-National
Differences in Europe". During that time I was also involved in
a research project concerning ethnic educational inequality
among young migrants in Germany and Israel (German Israeli
Research Consortium).
My main research interests are quantitative and qualitative
research methods, social stratification, gender and educational
inequalities, and comparative labour market research.
I am a member of the EU-founded COST Action 'WEBDATANET:
Web-based data collection - methodological challenges,
solutions and implementations' and the Dutch eHumanities group,
the Research Committees on 'Social Stratification and Mobility'
(RC28) and on 'Logic and Methodology in Sociology' (RC33) of
the International Sociological Association.