As a criminologist and urban sociologist, I’m interested in understanding and exposing how public policy exacerbates social inequality and how we can use policy and laws to protect human rights, prevent exclusion, and diminish inequalities. In all my work my aim is to contribute to a just society.
As of December 2024, I work as a policy officer at the Dutch Ministry of the Interior (BZK), focusing on policies for the use of algorithms/AI by governments in line with human rights. Previously I was a policy officer and researcher at Amnesty International the Netherlands in the Technology and Human Rights team, where I focused on algorithmic risk profiling and discrimination.
In my previous work as an academic I have written publications about algorithmic justice, but also about social inequality in criminal justice practices, urban policy (specifically gentrification and social mixing policies), and (class) inequality. In addition, I write opinion articles and blogs on these topics in order to make knowledge publicly accessable for the benefit of society.
Early 2021, together with resident groups, local organisations and other engaged citizens from Rotterdam, I was involved in founding ‘Recht op de stad’ (translation: Right to the city), an initiative committed to a better and just housing policy in Rotterdam. Read more on our website. I also helped organise the protest Woonopstand (Housing revolt) on 17 October 2021 in Rotterdam.
If you’d like to get in touch, please contact me via LinkedIn.
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2024–now Policy officer algorithms/AI and human rights, Ministry of the Interior
2022–2024 Researcher/policy officer Technology and Human Rights, Amnesty International Netherlands
2016–2021 Assistant Professor of Criminology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2015–2016 Visiting scholar, The Graduate School, City University of New York
2011–2016 Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of Leiden
2010–2011 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
2010–2011 Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam
2010 PhD in Urban Studies, Delft University of Technology
2006 MSc in Criminology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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