Eline is a PhD researcher in the ANIMAPOLIS project in the programme group Urban Geographies. Her research focuses on the metabolic relations between rats, humans and waste in Amsterdam and how these relations co-produce urban inequalities.

She has a background in anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) and previous experience in multispecies ethnography as a junior researcher in the ‘caring for pigs’ project at the KNAW humanities cluster. In her current PhD research, she draws on the concept of metabolism at the nexus of urban political ecology, anthropology and STS combined with work in waste and discard studies and valuation studies.

Media appearances

• Rats in Amsterdam ‘are symptomatic of inequality', Folia april 2025

Research methods

Ethnography, praxiography

Current research projects

The ERC-funded ANIMAPOLIS project investigates how animals shape urban inequalities by examining their interactions with humans and infrastructure.

BA teaching

Bachelor thesis supervision for students in Human Geography and Planning