Vy Tran is a PhD candidate at the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. She is affiliated with the Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance programme group of the AISSR. She is a core member of CitizenGap - an ERC project examining inequities in access to identity documentation and variation in civil registration coverage. She completed her Research Master's in Social Sciences at Radboud University, where she specialised in quantitative research methods.

Research interests

• Quantitative methods
• Latent variable approaches
• Welfare distribution
• Inequality
• State capacity
• Citizenship