I was trained as a sociologist and philosopher of science at the University of Amsterdam and worked there as a teacher and PhD student for ten years. In 2014, I defended my dissertation on the history of incentives in the social and behavioral sciences at the University of Amsterdam. That same year, I became a lecturer at the research group Science, Technology and Society at Maastricht University and taught a wide range of courses in European political history and qualitative research methodology. Between 2015 and 2017, I was a postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. As a member of the Sociology of Markets group, I turned my historical research on incentives into a book project. In addition, I explored the vogue for bonuses in the public sector in a case study on performance pay in education. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. At CWTS, I engage in a comparative organizational sociology of two University Medical Centers focusing on the relationship between career opportunities and reward mechanisms on the one hand and responsible research practices on the other.
For more information about my book project, see Incentives: A Genealogy
For more information about my case studies, see The Incentivizing State