December 2025: New pre-print published
Tobias Rüttenauer, David Kretschmer, and I published a pre-print entitled ‘Immigrant Residential Segregation in Europe: A Comparative Study of Spatial Segregation Patterns in Urban Areas across 30 Countries’ on arXiv)
December 2025: New article published
My paper with Frank van Tubergen ‘Who Partners With Whom? A Multigroup Perspective on Union Formation and Religious Boundaries in the Netherlands’ appeared in the Journal ‘Demography’ (see ‘Publications’ for more information).
October 2025: Student Visit at Nuffield College
Thanks to funding from Cologne International Forum, I had the privilege of hosting three talented Master students from the University of Cologne at Nuffield College for one week. Besides the student conference, during which all students presented their current work, we attended numerous seminars and other academic events.
November 2025: New article published
My paper with Evelina Akimova and Nan Dirk de Graaf ‘Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long-Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups’ appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family (see ‘Publications’ for more information).
November 2024: New article published
My paper with Dingeman Wiertz ‘Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations’ appeared in the Journal ‘European Sociological Review’ (see ‘Publications’ for more information). See (here) for a short thread.
November 2024: Funding for Tandem Collaboration
I am happy to announce that my Tandem Collaboration with Ansgar Hudde has received Funding from the University of Cologne. See (here) in the near future for more information.
August 2023: New article published
My paper with Nan Dirk de Graaf ‘Gender Segregation in Civic Life: Women’s and Men’s Involvement in Voluntary Associations’ appeared in the Journal ‘Gender & Society’ (see ‘Publications’ for more information). See (here) for a short thread.
July 2023: New article published
My paper ‘Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities’ appeared in the Journal ‘Social Networks’ (see ‘Publications’ for more information). See (here) for a short thread.
December 2022: ODISSEI Grant
Jochem Tolsma, Dingeman Wiertz, and I won an (ODISSEI-LISS grant). We are excited to study how people’s preferences shape segregation in civic life.
Segregation is a pervasive phenomenon that limits intergroup contact and may undermine social cohesion, reinforce inequalities, and give rise to polarization. Our data collection aims to advance our understanding of (the drivers of) social segregation in two different settings – civic organizations and neighborhoods – to identify opportunities and obstacles for intergroup contact. Firstly, we collect rich data about people’s involvement in civic organizations, examining social sorting across and within civic organizations, and along multiple social dimensions. Secondly, we conduct innovative choice experiments to analyze to what extent different social groups embrace or avoid social diversity when choosing civic organizations or neighborhoods.