I am an (adjunct) professor of Organizational Sociology at the University of Groningen. I study how public, nonprofit, and private organizations attempt to address societal challenges through their operations. I am particularly interested in the societal effects and performance of these organizations in relation to their governance structures and organizational practices. In close collaboration with the organizations involved, I apply these questions to specific settings, such as Dutch municipalities and NGOs working on the labor market integration of refugees and in the youth care sector, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Additionally, I serve as Secretary to the SCOOP board. I am also a board member of the Dutch Sociological Association, a member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), and a member of the Standing Group on Organizing in and through Civil Society of the European Group of Organization Studies. I have successfully completed the daily supervision of six PhD projects and am currently involved in four SCOOP PhD projects. Among other grants, I have been awarded funding from the National Science Agenda (Startimpuls), the The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, and the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.
