I am an interdisciplinary scholar, combining social science theories and methods with historical analysis in both my research and teaching. My work focuses on how institutional and structural factors have shaped gender (in)equality in wellbeing outcomes鈥攕uch as health, politics, household roles, work鈥攁nd in female entrepreneurship in the long 20th century.
My PhD introduced new open-access data to trace global gender gap trends since 1900. In my postdoctoral research within the Horizon 2020 project, I examined how institutional complementarities account for the diversity of entrepreneurship across Europe and their policy implications. My current NWO-Veni project investigates the historical development of female entrepreneurship in Europe since 1900. The project explores the barriers women have faced in starting and running businesses, how these challenges have evolved, and the strategies women have used to overcome them. I am co-editing a special issue of Business History titled 鈥淲here Have All the Business Women Gone?鈥� (2023鈥�2025).
In addition, I co-supervise three interdisciplinary PhD projects on gender equality in family firms, the role of associative order in well-being, and precarious work. I am also a core member of the interdisciplinary research platform Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change, under the Institutions for Open Societies strategic theme.
I have extensive experience designing and teaching interdisciplinary courses. From 2020 to 2023, I served as the History Board Member for the PPE bachelor鈥檚 program. In this role, I coordinated student skills training and led two curriculum development projects focused on interdisciplinary and professional skill-building. As a continuation of this work, I am co-editing a textbook titled An Interdisciplinary PPE Approach to 21st-Century Grand Challenges.