Curriculum Vitae
Current and former academic positions Since 1 September 2017, I am Professor of Politics & Governance at the Utrecht University School of Governance.
Before joining Utrecht University, I was Professor of Political Decision-Making at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I also served as the Director of Research of that department, as Head of Studies Politics of the BSc program Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and in that capacity was also a member of the management team the program's John Stuart Mill College. Prior to my appointment as full professor, I was Assistant and Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Main research project I was the principal investigator and project leader of the 5-year research program HIGH-RISK POLITICS, funded by a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) that ran between 2012-2017. You can read more about this project on the page Research or on the project's website www.highriskpolitics.org. Other executive positions & memberships (selection) I am senior associate editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Political Decisionmaking, an exciting project that is part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedias Politics' series. I am also a senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Government, of which I am also a board member; former board member of the Dutch Association of Political Science (2009-2015); member of the Advisory Board of Compasss, member of the working group Algorithmic Analytic Approaches of the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, member of the Social Sciences Council of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW), and member of the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) of the KNAW. Education 2008 Ph.D. in Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (cum laude, with distinction) 2003 M.Sc. in Political Science, University of Amsterdam 2002 M.A. in Economics, University of Amsterdam 2001 Minor Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam My full CV can be downloaded here (version from September 2017).