Since 1999, Frank Tros is affiliated to the University of Amsterdam. Frank is senior researcher at AIAS-HSI, an institute for multidisciplinary research and teaching in labour studies at the Law faculty of the University of Amsterdam.
Frank Tros holds a Msc in Sociology (University of Groningen) and a PhD in social sciences (Utrecht University) and was post-doctoral researcher in a co-initiated project, financed by the Netherlands Organisation for scientific research (NWO), studying the relationships between flexibility and security in European labour markets and emergence of 'flexicurity' policy concepts.
Frank Tros has been involved in many research projects in the fields of labour law, social dialogue, employment relations, labour market policies and workers participation. Frank was coordinator in the Dutch study on Modernising workers participation and was PI in European cross-country studies on 'Intergenerational Bargaining' and 'Decentralisation in colllectve bargaining in Europe'. Further he has been researcher in many other projects for the European Commission.
Currently (2023-2025), Frank is involved in European projects on:
Covid-19 crisis, mental health of healthcare workers and trade unions actions
Developing collective bargaining in the care sector (DEVCOBA)
Broadening the spectrum of employee voice for workplace innovation (BroadVoice)