Education

• 2012 - 2014: MSc Research Master's programme in Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, with distinction (Cum Laude)
• 2013: Civil Engineering and Urban Management (Non-degree), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Research exchange)
• 2008 - 2012: BSc Bachelor's programme in Human Geography & Urban and Regional Planning, University of Amsterdam, with distinction (Cum Laude) 

About

My research interests and activities cover a wide range of topics in the realm of contemporary urban theory. These topics include theoretical perspectives on the ‘urban age’ thesis, future challenges for metropolitan urban regions, theoretical perspectives on and empirical implications of variegated neoliberalism, the reshaping of urban socio-spatial inequalities, and developments in welfare state theory. I wrote my master thesis on processes of convergence and divergence between housing systems embedded within different welfare state regimes. The project tried to contribute to the field of ‘housing studies’ by illuminating the increasingly complex and variegated nature of the dynamics between different welfare state regimes, housing systems, housing tenure and social outcomes in the contemporary high-pressure ‘urban age’.

I’m currently working as a coordinator at the Centre for Urban Studies, one of fifteen research priority areas of the UvA and part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. I find the field of Urban Studies particularly interesting due to its interdisciplinary nature and due to the continuous developments in its epistemology; its way of ‘knowing’ or truth seeking. A little while ago I read an article by David Beer in which he argued that hip‐hop music may reasonably be thought of as a form of urban research. He stated that this particular type of music is full of insider ethnographic insights into daily urban life. The songs provided information on urbanism that captured the ‘material, sensory and emotional aspects of the city’. To look at the other end of the spectrum, mid-January 2015 the Centre for Urban Studies organized a lecture by newly added staff member Peter Sloot, professor of Computational Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Using his strong background in numerical algorithms, stochastic simulation, complex system simulation and modeling, Sloot addressed complex urban issues from a very different, quantitative, almost mathematical perspective. This, again, is a completely different way of investigating cities, of truth finding, a different way of looking at cities, of thinking about the urban age.

Current ongoing projects

• United Nations, Global Compact Cities Programme

• Urban Cycling Institute (UCI) 
• Amsterdam - Mumbai Symposium on 'Sustainable Urban Development: Practices, Problems and Prospects'

Thesis

• From unitary to dualist? Examining urban housing market convergence in London, Stockholm and Amsterdam

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