Biography
Professional experience
since January 2012
Assistant Professor at the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), University of Utrecht
09/2010 - 12/2011
Senior researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization
06/2007 – 08/2010
PhD researcher, Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology (CSCP), University of Leuven, and European Research Centre On Migration and Ethnic Relations (Ercomer), Utrecht University,
Dissertation:
Second-generation Muslims in European societies: Comparative perspectives on education and religion
09 – 12/2008
Study visit at Centre for Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO), University of Stockholm, Sweden
since 09/2007
Collaborator in the Belgian team of the Ethnic Educational Inequalities (EEI) research project (part of the Education cluster within the Equalsoc network of excellence)
01/2006 – 05/2007
Student assistant at the departments of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Utrecht University
Education
2005 – 2007
Research master Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism, Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University
2003 – 2005
Brazilian Studies minor, Leiden University
2002 – 2005
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology, Leiden University
Teaching experience
02 – 04/2010
Seminar teacher Societal Prejudice, 3rd year course in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Utrecht University
01 – 08/2009
Thesis co-supervisor for Master’s students at the Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Further training
09/2009
Equalsoc summer school on Education, Trento, Italy
09/2008
UCSIA summer school Religion, Culture & Society, Antwerp, Belgium
06/2007
Summer school of the TIES Research and Training Network, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
01 – 03/2007
Trainee at European University Institute, Florence, Italy
06/2006
Interdisciplinary graduate summer school, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden