• 2008 - present: PhD-fellow Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
  
  
• 2006 - 2008: Research master 'Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (MERM)', Utrecht University, the Netherlands (MSc: June 2008)
  
  
• 2001 - 2004: World Religions, Leiden University, the Netherlands (Propaedeutics: 2005)
  
  
• 2000 - 2006: Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands (MA: November 2006)

Extra-curriculaire

• June 2010: QMSS2 Seminar: Mulitlevel Research and Multigroup Comparisons in Cross-nation Research, Leuven, Belgium. 

• July 2009: Online course 'Meta Analysis', Dr. Borenstein, www.statistics.com. 

• July 2008:Research Exchange Trans-Atlantic Graduate Program 'Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies (REMS)', Howard University - Washington, DC, USA. 

• May 2008: Summer Institute Trans-Atlantic Graduate Program 'Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies (REMS)', Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 

• August 2006: Summer School 'Multivariate Statistics with SPSS', Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 

• Fall 2004: Erasmus Exchange Student, Universitetet i Bergen - Norway.

 Scholarships 

• PhD scholarship Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) - 2008-2011.

• Participation grant Trans-Atlantic Graduate Program 'Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies (REMS)' - July 2008.