Wouter Schakel is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology department at the University of Amsterdam. His research is part of the NWO-VICI project "Between institutions and social mechanisms: education and inequality in comparative perspective" (led by prof. dr. Herman van de Werfhorst). His research mainly focuses on inequality in political representation, in particular on the basis of income and education. He completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (supervised by prof. dr. Brian Burgoon, dr. Armen Hakhverdian and dr. Daphne van der Pas), and previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University (with dr. Tom Louwerse).