I am Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam, where I am a member of the research group Political Economy and Transnational Governance. My research concentrates on the politics of care work, social policy, gender and migration.
From 2025 till 2030 I am principle investigator of the project “Breaking the Silence: Politics, Workers’ Rights and the Future of Senior Care in Europe” funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VIDI). It investigates under which conditions political decisions are made that improve working conditions in senior care and how care workers become politically active.
Previously, I was Programme Director of the Social Science Research Master (2021-2024) and co-leader of the AISSR Programme Group Political Economy and Transnational Governance (2020-2022). Before working at the University of Amsterdam, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at the Univeristy of Bremen. I obtained my PhD from the European University Institute in Florence.
Among other things, I have studied the role of and political responses to migrant workers in social care in different European welfare states; welfare state responses to economic crisis; the politics of domestic work policy in the Netherlands; and the post-colonial inequalities in social rights of former colonial citizens. More information can be found on my personal website and an up-to-date list of my publications can also be found on Google Scholar.