I am a sociologist, social researcher and data analyst working as an Assistant Professor at the Human Resource Studies Department at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. At Tilburg, I am involved in interdisciplinary research on social inequality at the Herbert Simon Research Institute. Previously I worked at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in the Work & Retirement group (where I am currently a guest researcher), and at the University of Amsterdam in the Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses group (IIL). I received my PhD in sociology at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2015).
My research is focused on changing and ageing labour markets, life course inequalities, lifelong learning, ageing policies, age stereotypes, age management and retirement patterns. I specialise in quantitative methodology and statistics, particularly in longitudinal and multilevel analysis, mixture models, structural equation models, and Bayesian statistics. I am also interested in applying agent-based and simulation techniques in social research. My interest in general methodology and epistemology is focused on Charles Peirce’s pragmatism and the context of discovery.
In 2020 I developed the Comparative Panel File (CPF) – an open science project to harmonize the world’s major and longest-running household panel surveys. CPF is the first fully open harmonization initiative in the social sciences. It provides a powerful comparative longitudinal dataset that follows the lives of several generations against a changing historical background, warranting an enormous value for social scientists.