Between September 2013 and September 2018, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research of KU Leuven, where I was part of the GENDERBALL project team (principal investigator: Jan Van Bavel). In the context of this project, I examined the implications of the shifting gender balance in education for reproductive
behavior in Europe, mostly by means of agent-based computational modeling. In my Ph.D. research at the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology at the University of Groningen, I examined the emergence of status
differentiation from small group interaction by means of agent-based
computational modeling and social network analysis (supervisors: Rafael Wittek and Andreas Flache). I was particularly interested in the social construction of status characteristics such as gender,
age, and ethnicity. A digital copy of my dissertation can be obtained here. News and upcoming events - On the 17th of July 2019, I gave an 'Introduction to Agent-Based Computational Modelling in Social Science' at the 5th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science, which took place July 17–20 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- I was a member of the program committee of the 5th Annual International Conference on ComputationalSocial Science, which took place July 17–20 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- I was a member of the organization committee of the Rostock Retreat on Simulation, which took place at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research on July 1-3 2019.
- I was a member of the program committee of the 4th international conference on Digital Transformation & Global Society, which took place June 19–21 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- In June 2019, I taught at the BIGSSS Summer Schools in Computational Social Science in Sardinia, Italy.
- In June 2019, I gave a course on 'Agent-Based Computational Modeling in Population Studies' at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.
- In June 2019, I represented the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research at the science communication competition Rostock's 11, in Rostock, Germany.
- In May 2019, I presented the paper 'Gender, Resources, and Status: An Empirically Grounded Model of Status Construction Theory' at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, in Stockholm, Sweden.
- In May 2019, I presented the paper 'The Income Cliff in Households: Insights from Agent-Based Computational Modelling' at the ECSR workshop 'Resources, Status and Family: A Gender Perspective' at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, in Stockholm, Sweden.
- In April 2019, I gave a talk titled 'One Phenomenon, Multiple Models: Status Differentiation from Face-to-Face Interaction' in the workshop 'One Simulation Model is not Enough!' at the University of Rostock, Germany.
- In April 2019, I presented the papers 'Gender, Resources, and Status: An Empirically Grounded Model of Status Construction Theory' and 'Social Networks and Long-Term Fertility Trends: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach' at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Austin, USA.
- In December 2018, I presented the paper 'Gender, Resources, and Status: An Empirically Grounded Model of Status Construction Theory' at the 2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science in Cologne, Germany.
- In November 2018, I presented the paper 'Gender, Resources, and Status: An Empirically Grounded Model of Status Construction Theory' at the Digital Traces Workshop at the University of Bremen, Germany.
- In November 2018, I participated in the workshop Uncertainty and Complexity of Migration held at the British Academy in London, United Kingdom.
- On 30 October 2018, I presented the paper 'Occupational Gender Segregation, Gender Norms, and Occupational Homogamy Across Europe' at the conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research in Paris, France.
- On 17 October 2018, I presented a poster titled 'The Income Cliff in Households: Insights from Agent-Based Computational Modelling' at the Symposium on Digital Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- I was a member of the program committee of the 2018 SocInfo conference, which took place 25–28 September in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- On 5 September 2018, I gave a talk on the empirical calibration and validation of agent-based models at the BEHAVE Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling for Social Scientists at the University of Brescia, Italy.
- I was awarded a travel grant by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) to present the paper 'The Income Cliff in Households: Insights from Agent-Based Computational Modelling' on 19 July 2018 at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, Canada.
- I was a member of the program committee of the 2018 Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science, which took place 12–15 July at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
- On 9 June 2018, I presented the paper 'The Changing Importance of Women’s Labor Market Position for Union Formation: Evidence from European Cohorts Born between the 1940s and the 1980s' at the European Population Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
- On 17 May 2018, I giva a talk on 'Agent-Based Modelling of Family Formation and Dissolution' at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.
- On 9 March 2018, I presented my work on agent-based modeling in the workshop Sozialwissenschaftliche Simulationen und die Soziologie der Simulation (Simulation in the Social Sciences and the Sociology of Simulation), at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
- On 27 February 2018, I gave a guest lecture in the Master course European Social and Population Issues at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
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