I am an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Urban Studies research group at the Department of Urbanism of Delft University of Technology. I am a social scientist with a background in sociology and criminology. My main research interests include
- Urban Sociology,
- Spatial Inequality,
- Segregation,
- Crime and Disorder,
- Ethnic Diversity,
- Neighbourhood Effects, and
- Social Cohesion.
I am interested in how individuals are affected by the physical and social characteristics of the environments in which they grow up, live and act. More specifically, by looking at person-environment interactions, I am trying to understand how important contextual effects are, for whom and under which circumstances.
I am affiliated to the independent research group Space, Contexts, and Crime at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. I am also Associate Editor of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
I have previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany) and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR; Amsterdam). I obtained my PhD degree in 2016 from Utrecht University.
